huang xueqin _ activists? these are two prominent people. huang xueqin is _ activists?g xueqin is a - activists? these are two prominent| people. huang xueqin is a journalist who worked in a newsroom in china. she suffered sexual harassment during that time. she continued her work and then she uncovered the story of a phd student who suffered sexual harassment. she started talking and writing about these on social media and got a lot of attention. because it was unusual, she took one step further and issuing online surveys for women who worked in newsrooms across china, sophie morgen is working across 15 chinese provinces and also women in chinese provinces and also women in chinese universities, asking if they suffered sexual harassment. she had many responses back, some graphic stories. she is credited for bringing the me to movement to the fore. her good friend, wang jianbing is also the rights activist. he looks into workers who gets injured or sick on thejob. looks into workers who gets injured or sick on the job. these two hot steady weekly gatherings in the city

and whether it's, for example, a journalist named huang xueqin who was just tried on friday after being grid for two years, she made her name actually writing about metoo cases in china. or whether you're talking about the, until recently, foreign minister who disappeared off the grid in june. the authorities have no trouble simply depriving people of their liberty. there's no warrant, no arrest, nobody tells your family where you are, and you can't call a lawyer. this is an alarmingly common problem for journalists, activists, and indeed for very senior government officials. john: sophie richardson of human rights watch, thank you very much. sophie: thank you. ♪ john: tattoos in early 20th-century century america were largely limited to sailors and circus performers, but today there is hardly a major celebrity who is not inked. and it's not just the famous. when the pew research center surveyed 8500 americans this summer, 32% said they had at least one tattoo and 22% said they had more than one. by one estimate, tattooing in america is a $1.5 billion industry. but while all 50 states r

journalist sophia huang xueqin appeared in court in the southern city of guangzhou on friday with hernce journalist, sparked the first metoo case in 2018 after she helped a graduate student go public with accusations against her phd supervisor. the two were detained in 2021 as part of china's wide crackdown on activists. the bbc�*s sarah campbell spoke to elaine pearson, who's a writer and human rights activist, and an asia director of human rights watch. so, this was a trial that is two years in the making. these two activists were very prominent in the metoo movement. they were picked up two years ago, as you said, on charges of subversion. we know very little, actually, about the trial because the evidence has been kept secret. we do know that they didn't have access to lawyers of their own choosing. we know that over the past two years, they've been kept pretty much in isolation. family members have not been able to visit them. diplomats from the uk, the us and a number of european union countries tried to go but were blocked by the police. and you know, this really represents the