BEIJING (AP) — The lawyer for a Chinese AIDS activist says his client has been given a one-year prison sentence after smashing equipment in the office of the hospital where he was infected.
Lawyer Liang Xiaojun said Saturday Tian Xi will appeal the sentence handed down a day earlier in Xincai County People's Court in central China's Henan province.
Tian was taken into custody in August after a run-in with an administrator at Xincai County No. 1 People's Hospital, where he had been given a tainted blood transfusion as a boy.
The 24-year-old has petitioned for compensation and has been outspoken in his advocacy for others who have contracted HIV through tainted blood supplies.
