Activist ‘broke his own neck’

CHINESE investigators have concluded that an activist who said he was paralysed after assailants broke his neck inflicted the injury on himself, his son said yesterday.

“We cannot accept this decision,” said Fu Bing, whose father, Fu Xiancai, criticised the government’s treatment of people who were forced to relocate as a result of the Three Gorges dam project.

Fu Xiancai was injured three weeks after German public television broadcast an interview in which he said he was threatened and beaten for complaining about inadequate compensation for relocated residents.