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Helen Davidson in Taipei

Journalist held without trial in China said to need urgent medical attention

Huang Xueqin was a prominent voice of the #MeToo movement in China
Huang Xueqin was a prominent voice of the #MeToo movement in China. Photograph: South China Morning Post/Getty Images

Advocates for a Chinese journalist and activist who has been held in detention without trial for almost 18 months have said she needs urgent medical attention.

Huang Xueqin and Wang Jianbing, a labour rights activist, were detained in September 2021 and formally arrested a month later. They have been accused of inciting subversion of state power, and held in Guangzhou without access to family or lawyers.

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