Chinese police seize activist who runs rights site

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BEIJING (AP) — Police in southwestern China on Thursday took away a veteran activist who runs a rights monitoring website, and seized his computers and mobile phones, the campaigner’s mother said.

Eleven police officers turned up at Huang Qi’s home in the city of Chengdu and produced a summons for Huang before taking him away, said his mother, Pu Wenqing.

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