And the creeping trend thailand is cashing in on demand for snail slime skin care fanatics are crazy for the stuff thats now more precious than gold. Im melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us we start in china and a look at a man who once upon a time was in the good graces of the communist party but not anymore activist twang she has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for quote deliberately disclosing state secrets thats the crime the party usually uses to go after people like him for almost 2 decades wangs run a website documented human rights abuses including. The legal confiscation of land from powerless farmers to the prosecution or rather persecution of religious groups early on his coverage of social problems was actually praised by the government but space for criticism has narrowed over the years and hes found himself in and out of jail we have Sophie Richardson human china director of Human Rights Watch to talk more about this so if he saw one shes been c