By acceptingBritishmissionarydoctor George Harden'sadvice, the ChineseMedical Association set up a medical vocational college inAnqing , Anhui province in 1923.
Marianne Coen, secretary of an associationsetup in support of Canarelli, told the AFP news agency she was "very disappointed and surprised" at the verdict.
They include those of Memorial, the associationsetup in the late 1990s to retrieve and make known the full truth about the Soviet penal system and its victims.