Fears in China for missing #MeToo activist and labour rights campaigner
- Friends have not been able to contact Sophia Huang and Wang Jianbing since Sunday, when they were planning to leave Guangzhou for Shenzhen
- Huang had been going to fly from Hong Kong to London to study
Two activists based in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou – including one of China’s most well-known women’s rights campaigners, have lost contact with their friends, raising fears that the pair may have been detained by police.
Cheng said Huang had been planning to leave Guangzhou for Shenzhen with Wang and had booked to fly from Hong Kong to London on Monday.
“Both Huang and Wang have not been contactable since Sunday afternoon and we are worried that they may have been detained,” he said.
Huang, also a freelance journalist, told friends that she had received a Chevening scholarship to study for a master’s degree at the University of Sussex.
“The Chevening scholarship requires her to return to China after completing the programme, and Huang has never wanted to leave China or emigrate,” Cheng said. “She always wants to live and do her work in China.”
