He Fangmei was found guilty of “picking fights and riots.” The activist has two young daughters who “are missing”, one of them developed acute viral myelitis 10 months after vaccination.
Chinese activist He Fangmei, known for denouncing the use of low-quality vaccines in China, was recently sentenced to five years and six months in prison, the organization Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) reported this Tuesday.
HE CHRD, which called for He’s immediate release for a sentence it considers “incorrect”explained in social network that, since October 2020, the activist has been under house arrest or preventive detention and that serving sentence for “provoking fights and riots”a charge commonly used in China against human rights defenders and dissidents.
A Chinese court announced its sentencing verdict #HeFangmeidefender of health rights, to 5 years and 6 months in prison.@CHRDnet condemns the unjust punishment of the human rights defender and demands her immediate release.
https://t.co/A7NJoEIagu https://t.co/oPzunPWLBx— CHRD人权捍卫者 (@CHRDnet) October 30, 2024
According to the organization, the activist, who will serve her sentence on January 1, 2027, He has two young daughters who “are missing”. One of them developed acute viral myelitis at 10 months old after receiving a defective vaccine in Huixian county, central Henan province, “and has been disabled since then.”
Heartbreaking: defense of human rights #HeFangmei imprisoned for defending the safety of vaccines while her two young children disappeared under the surveillance of the authorities. His case exposes #PorcelainThe mockery of the rule of law and the total lack of #responsibility. @amyhawk_ @Nectar_Gan @EmilyZFeng https://t.co/ObaGw7s4EZ
— CHRD人权捍卫者 (@CHRDnet) November 5, 2024
He Fangmei then began campaigning for her daughter’s rights, founding the “Home for Vaccinated Babies” and joining other victims of defective vaccines to defend her rights.
In October 2020, He threw paint in front of the Huixian government headquarters as a form of protest, resulting in his arrest.
According to the NGO, the Huixian Public Security Bureau placed He under house arrest for “provoking fights and disputes,” along with his two daughters.
At that time, She gave birth to a third child, who was sent to the home of a Huixian resident as a foster child. The CHRD said he spent months on trial, with stints in prison, before a verdict was finally delivered.
In 2019, Chinese authorities passed a law on vaccine management to achieve stricter supervision of the sector, in order to avoid scandals like those that shook the country in previous years, imposing severe punishments on anyone who produces or sells fake or fake vaccines. lower quality. .
This regulation arose as a result of the social scandal generated by a case of adulterated vaccines, after the authorities detected that the The pharmaceutical company Changsheng Bio-Technology had used obsolete materials in the production of freeze-dried rabies vaccines for human use and had not properly registered the dates or serial numbers of the products from at least 2014.
Also in 2019, hundreds of parents protested after at least 145 children received expired oral polio vaccines in eastern China’s Jiangsu province.
Source: Observadora
