Chinese Tainted Milk Whistleblower Imprisoned
Crime • 11/10/10 7:02:31 am • Views: 856
No good deed goes unpunished in fighting big business. Especially in “communist” China.
A Chinese activist who campaigned for compensation for victims of a 2008 contaminated baby milk scandal has been jailed for two-and-a-half years.
Zhao Lianhai, whose child was among the 300,000 made ill by the milk, was convicted of inciting social disorder.
Mr Zhao founded a website to provide information for parents after it was found milk formula had been laced with the industrial chemical melamine to give it a high protein-content reading.
At least six babies died.
