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Disabled athletes detained
National Catholic Reporter, Oct 26, 2007
SHANGHAI, China -- Eighty security agents and a dozen plainclothes police officers prevented a contingent of Chinese athletes from joining the closing ceremony of the Special Olympics Oct. 11, according to a report from the church news agency AsiaNews.it. The Special Olympics are for athletes with intellectual disabilities.
The group of about 100 people--athletes, family members and coaches--had been in Shanghai since Oct. 5 for the Special Olympics organized by China in the lead up to the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008. As they prepared to leave their hotel for the closing ceremonies, police and security agents stopped them, held them in the hotel all afternoon and then escorted them to the train station.
The athletes are with Huiling, a nongovernmental service agency that cares for and advocates for people with mental disabilities. It has centers in eight Chinese cities.
It was reported that the Federation of the Disabled, the governmental body that provides services to mentally and physically disabled Chinese, is jealous of the growing influence of private agencies like Huiling and did not want them at the closing ceremony.
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