BEIJING (Reuters) - A prominent figure in China's #MeToo movement has been detained by police, a rights activist with direct knowledge of the situation said on Thursday.
Sophia Huang Xueqin, a freelance journalist who lived in the southern city of Guangzhou, was detained there on Oct. 17 on suspicion of "picking quarrels and stirring up trouble", a charge often used by authorities to detain activists, according to Yaqiu Wang, China researcher for Human Rights Watch.
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