HELSINGIN SANOMAT: Chinese activist protests at Nokia headquarters

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> Chinese activist protests at Nokia headquarters> > Company denies

discriminating against hepatitis carriers> >

http://www.hs.fi/english/article/Chinese+activist+protests+at+Nokia+headquarters\

/1135241359142> > > > The Chinese Beijing Yirenping Center organisation has

accused the mobile phone manufacturer Nokia of discriminating against carriers

of the hepatitis B virus. > The organisation's coordinator Lu Jun says that a

man who was hired by the Nokia factory in Dongguan was not allowed to take the

job because a health check-up found him to be carrying Hepatitis B. > " We have a

recorded phone call as evidence, in which Nokia's personnel department says that

he will not be hired because of hepatitis B " , Lu Jun says. > > China has about

100 million carriers of hepatitis B. The virus can be contracted at birth, and

it can lead to a serious liver infection. > On Friday, Lu Jun held a one-man

demonstration in front of Nokia headquarters on Friday, holding a sign reading

" SHAME ON NOKIA's discrimination in China " . > Lu Jun says that he travelled to

Finland from Sweden at his own expense in order to draw attention to his cause.

> > Nokia denies that it discriminates against carriers of the virus, insisting

that a chronic disease is not an impediment to being hired by the company. > " We

no longer take blood tests of job applicants. For that reason, we do not even

know if our new employees are carriers of the virus or not " , says Nokia

spokesman Jönsson. > In a trial over the matter, Nokia was acquitted of

labour discrimination. > " The trial was bribed. We are appealing the decision of

the court. Why didn't the court even ask a representative of the personnel

department, who admitted discrimination, to testify? " Lu Jun asked. > > The

video of Lu Jun's demonstration in HELSINGIN SANOMAT website:

http://www.hs.fi/videot/1135241296602> > > > More details and photo:

http://www.hs.fi/talous/artikkeli/J%C3%A4rjest%C3%B6+Nokia+syrjii+B-hepatiitin+k\

antajia/1135241301886> >

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> Chinese activist protests at Nokia headquarters> > Company denies

discriminating against hepatitis carriers> >

http://www.hs.fi/english/article/Chinese+activist+protests+at+Nokia+headquarters\

/1135241359142> > > > The Chinese Beijing Yirenping Center organisation has

accused the mobile phone manufacturer Nokia of discriminating against carriers

of the hepatitis B virus. > The organisation's coordinator Lu Jun says that a

man who was hired by the Nokia factory in Dongguan was not allowed to take the

job because a health check-up found him to be carrying Hepatitis B. > " We have a

recorded phone call as evidence, in which Nokia's personnel department says that

he will not be hired because of hepatitis B " , Lu Jun says. > > China has about

100 million carriers of hepatitis B. The virus can be contracted at birth, and

it can lead to a serious liver infection. > On Friday, Lu Jun held a one-man

demonstration in front of Nokia headquarters on Friday, holding a sign reading

" SHAME ON NOKIA's discrimination in China " . > Lu Jun says that he travelled to

Finland from Sweden at his own expense in order to draw attention to his cause.

> > Nokia denies that it discriminates against carriers of the virus, insisting

that a chronic disease is not an impediment to being hired by the company. > " We

no longer take blood tests of job applicants. For that reason, we do not even

know if our new employees are carriers of the virus or not " , says Nokia

spokesman Jönsson. > In a trial over the matter, Nokia was acquitted of

labour discrimination. > " The trial was bribed. We are appealing the decision of

the court. Why didn't the court even ask a representative of the personnel

department, who admitted discrimination, to testify? " Lu Jun asked. > > The

video of Lu Jun's demonstration in HELSINGIN SANOMAT website:

http://www.hs.fi/videot/1135241296602> > > > More details and photo:

http://www.hs.fi/talous/artikkeli/J%C3%A4rjest%C3%B6+Nokia+syrjii+B-hepatiitin+k\

antajia/1135241301886> >

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