Chinese HIV Positive Activist Tian Xi to Go on Trial on Trumped up Charges

摘要

On September 21st 2010 Chinese activist Tian Xi will go on trial in Henan Province charged with ?suspicion of intentional destruction toproperty.? Tian Xi is 23 years old. He is HIV positive and was infected with HIV as a child as a result of a blood transfusion at the time whenthousands of people in Henan and other provinces were infected with HIV through state-sponsored blood selling programmes in the 1990s. In anunprecedented action, activists from across China will attend Tian Xi?s trial to express solidarity with him.