NGO's - A HRIC-rep invited to, and arrested in Beijing

Sharon K. Hom of Human Rights in China (HRIC) describes in the unlinkable Wall Street Journalist how she was invited for a EU-China human rights dialogue, obtained a visa from Foreign Affairs and participated for the first time as an official HRIC-representative at the two-day seminar in Beijing June 20, 21.
After the seminar Beijing State Security tried to arrest her in what Hom describes as an effort to block this kind of initiatives.

It's only right to acknowledge and encourage the increasing openness and engagement of China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs that is demonstrated by its engagement in the international arena. But it ought to remain of deep concern to the international community that a powerful economic actor such as China has a domestic culture in which state-security police can operate with such impunity.
The kind of vague, Kafkaesque accusations leveled against me differ little from those that confront China's political and religious dissidents, independent journalists, lawyers and ordinary citizens on a routine basis. Unlike myself, these courageous individuals are obliged to face their interrogators alone, for hours, days or weeks at a stretch, and instead of safely boarding an overseas flight the next day, they all too often end up in a police van or unmarked car escorting them to the local prison or labor camp.

Hear, hear,