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BBC NEWS Asia-Pacific Three Gorges activist 'beaten up'

Many farmers will lose their land to the rising watersA Chinese campaigner for people displaced by the Three Gorges Dam has been beaten up soon after he was called in by police, a rights group said.
Fu Xiancai was seriously injured last week after meeting Public Security Bureau officials in Hubei province, US-based Human Rights in China said.
He is now in hospital with a broken neck and is paralysed from the shoulders down, the group said.
Mr Fu has highlighted the plight of people moved to make way for the dam.
Human Rights in China said the attack occurred shortly after Mr Fu was summoned to the Public Security Bureau to discuss an interview he gave to a German TV station about the dam.
He had been subject to a series of threats, attacks and harassment in the past year, the group said.
A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said she did not know about the case, but said that China "is a country ruled by law and handles things according to the law", Reuters news agency reported.
China says the dam, which will be the world's largest hydro-electric project, will provide electricity for its booming economy and help control flooding on the Yangtze River.
But it comes at the expense of villagers, who in many cases have been resettled on inferior land and been deprived of compensation by corrupt local officials, the rights group said.