Beijing Massage Parlors: Sex worker ‘held after protest’
Beijing – An activist Chinese sex worker said she had been detained after fronting an unusual protest to demand legalised prostitution, rampant in China despite an official ban since the Communists took power six decades ago.
Ye Haiyan, who also goes by the name of “Hooligan Sparrow”, rallied a small group of sex workers and their supporters in the central Chinese city of Wuhan last Thursday.
The group, holding red umbrellas, carried banners and collected signatures urging an end to discrimination against sex workers.
“I cannot talk or use the Internet right now, I am with them,” Ye told Reuters by text message, having been detained on Sunday.Continues Below ↓
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She soon opened her own NGO, the Chinese Women’s Rights Workshop, to promote sex workers’ health and human rights, visiting massage parlours and barber shops in Wuhan to distribute condoms and Aids-prevention pamphlets.
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