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For Malaysian that puzzle why AIDS activitist are consider "anti-government" in China. All this is due to AIDS activist try to eliminate HIV infection caused by tainted/recycle needle in blood selling practice.

Thus, this lead to
- beneficial parties "profits" are hurts because they need to use new needle. (imagine that, life is CHEAPER than a new needle)
- Local government warlords that dislike people quetion their negligence.

This is no different than "gag order" that many 3rd world governemnt when dealing with "sensitive national issue".

I agree that this is extremely inhumane and that no citizen should have to be treated this way.

However, I find it extremely hypocritical for an American to ignore the actions of her own country and to pick on those of another country.

Quote from her article - "How can Americans respect or trust a regime that kidnaps our friends?"

Are we forgetting that the US kidnaps and tortures "suspected" terrorists in foreign prisons/international waters/airplanes? This is also done with "no courts, arrest warrants, official paperwork". In addition, such suspected terrorists are often held for longer than 41 days!

So, what's the use of preaching against a foreign country's policies when one is unable to even recognise the shortcomings of his/her own country's?

It's pure hypocrisy if you ask me.

Comparing Gitmo and what happened to this activist is like comparing apples and oranges.

The big difference here is that an activist who is trying to EDUCATE the people about AIDS - to PREVENT the spread of AIDS was jailed and interrogated.

I don't agree with what the US has done with Gitmo but some of the prisoners there might have potential information about terrorism - as in KILLING OTHER PEOPLE. [Now if only they had a decent trial..]

Since when was educating the people and trying to better their lives a CRIME?

To compare further, i suppose if someone was deadly sick and there was a person who happen to know more about this disease, that person should be jailed cos... life is cheap?

Why can't we face real issues like real men?

Aiseh... Last time everyone condemn about ISA, at the end the western countries which criticized the practicethe most also using it now. You detain the suspect terrorist because they might hurt people, yes, this is always a precaution method. What about faking evidence and dossiers and invade a country? End of the day its still goes back to the same place.

This blogger got detained but was released. It could be he was framed or something, or there is some instigator behind the scene, we don’t know. And of course just like everyone, the terrorist/culprit will always deny that he is involved.

Keep lobbying and keep trying till they release all the innocents.

chevo

If you assume that all the detainees in Gitmo are genuine terrorists, then yes, comparing Gitmo and what happened to this activist may be like comparing apples and oranges.

But is this really the case? Why do you think scores of detainees have been released from US detention centres after being held, interrogated, and tortured for an indefinite period of time?

Isn't this enough to prove that a large number of them are in fact innocent (as innocent as this Chinese AIDS activist)?

It doesn't matter if one is an activist or a blogger or a lawyer or a teacher or an engineer. Detaining any innocent human being without the right to a fair trial, and subjecting them to any form of inhumane treatment, is undeniably a violation of human rights.

Thus, aren't the similarities striking?