Parents Detained

Three parents of children sickened in China’s 2008 tainted-milk scandal were detained after observing the one-year anniversary of the milk scandal, and another who planned to join them has been taken to an unofficial “black prison,” victims’ parents say. Guo Caihong and Zhou Jinzhong from central Henan province and Xiang Qingyu from southern Jiangsu province met last Friday at a restaurant in suburban Beijing’s Daxing county, parents said. But authorities then detained and questioned them. Chinese authorities are jittery and eager to crack down on dissent ahead of the 60th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party on Oct. 1. Police have arrested or detained leading dissidents and are harassing lawyers who defend them. Radio Free Asia, 09/14/2009

Let's help get these parents out of China's Black Prison

Guo Caihong

Zhou Jinzhong

Xiang Qingyu