Advocate for Sanlu victims held

• Source: Global Times
• [04:45 November 16 2009]
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By Wen Tao

The founder of the organization "Home for the Kidney Stone Babies," Zhao Lianhai was arrested in Daxing district by the police on Friday night. Li Xuemei, Zhao's wife, told the Global times that about a dozen police officers from Daxing District Public Security Bureau and Tuanhe substation presented a warrant for Zhao's arrest.

When Zhao refused to go with them, as the summons did not clearly state why, the police officers called their superior, who amended the warrant, alleging Zhao was suspected of being involved in the crime of "provoking an incident."

Officers took away many items, including two computers, a video recorder, a camera, a USB drive, campaign T-shirts and an address book.

The arrest occurred just two hours after Zhao and Wang Gang, the father of a baby stricken by Sanlu's poisoned milk powder , successfully received an official apology from Haidian police.

Zhao and Wang were invited by the Haidian police on Friday to address a previous dispute. Officers, who conducted the controversial detention of Wang, gave the father an apology and paid for Wang's physical examination.

"A police car followed us all the way from my home to the Haidian police headquarters," Zhao said. He even took a picture of the car that followed him.

Two hours after Zhao returned home, Daxing police arrested him.