China: Further information: Chinese activist at risk of torture

Index Number: ASA 17/034/2011
Date Published: 14 July 2011
Categories: China

Mao Hengfeng, a Chinese human rights defender, is being held incommunicado at Shanghai City Prison Hospital. She is at risk of torture and other ill-treatment. She was previously held at the same hospital, where she was tied to a bed and forcibly given several injections against her will.