Amnesty International Condemns Sentencing of Chinese Milk Scandal Activist

(Washington, D.C.) Amnesty International today condemned the two-and-a-half-year sentence given to a Chinese activist who organized a support group for parents of babies made ill by tainted milk. “We are appalled that the authorities have imprisoned a man the Chinese public rightly view as a protector of children, not a criminal,” said Catherine Baber, Amnesty International’s deputy director for the Asia-Pacific. Daxing District People’s Court in Beijing Municipality convicted and sentenced Zhao Lianhai today, seven months after his trial for “disturbing social order” during public