Public Health
The following text was retrieved from the Law-Lib.com Web site on October 13, 2006.
According to Human Rights in China, a group of peasants in Fujian province has written an open letter appealing for China’s central government to intervene on a case in which police brought in hired thugs to suppress a village protest. HRIC reports that the open letter says that on August 1st, a large group of law enforcement officers and individuals recently released from Reeeducation Through Labor and Reform Through Labor camps arrived at a factory where villagers were staging a sit-in and attacked the villagers, injuring at lease 15 people.
According to an AP report carried on Channel News Asia's website, a spokeswoman for the Ramon Magsaysay international award foundation has said that Chinese authorities refused to grant 72-year-old Jiang Yanyong travel papers and he will be represented at the ceremony on Tuesday by his brother. The report states that, in the award citation, the foundation said that "in 2003, as the virus called Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome swept unacknowledged into Beijing, he (Jiang) broke Chinas habit of silence and forced the truth of SARS into the open."
The following Chinese text was retrieved on December 6, 2016, from the website of the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China.
The following English translation was retrieved from the National People's Congress website on March 1, 2011. The Chinese text was retrieved on December 1, 2016, from the web site of the PRC Central People's Government.
(Adopted at the Tenth Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Eighth National People's Congress on October 27, 1994 and promulgated by Order No.33 of the President of the People's Republic of China on October 27, 1994)