Activist uses Web to monitor Beijing
February 9, 2001
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Lu Siqing is one part activist, one part web geek, and one part secret agent. According to the BALTIMORE SUN, Lu runs the Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy, a one-man operation that monitors the Chinese government's human-rights abuses.
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Using a pager and a cellular phone with a phone number that changes regularly, Lu keeps in contact with activists in mainland China. Lu's tactics are a little controversial -- recently he impersonated a concerned relative in order to get information from a hospital after factory workers clashed with local police -- but journalists who use the ICHRD's reports say that he's a reliable source.
