China university expels ‘sick’ student

BEIJING (AFP): A student in Beijing is suing his university after he was allegedly expelled for having the rare hereditary blood disease haemophilia, reports said Friday, the latest case in China’s long history of medical discrimination. The student, identified by the pseudonym Zheng Qing, is suing the China Institute of Industrial Relations after he was officially expelled earlier this month, the government-run Global Times reported. He was previously pressured into leaving the school in September. The 21-year-old journalism major applied to be excused from mandatory military training on account of his haemophilia.

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