Finally, with just a few months to go before the opening of the Beijing Olympics, Reporters Without Borders has awarded a special “China” prize to husband-and-wife human rights team Hu Jia and Zeng Jinyan, who are under house arrest. Holed up at home the two activists nevertheless continue to do their best to keep the entire world up to date with damaging effects on the Chinese people of the preparations for the Olympic Games.
Entries from May 2008
Zeng Jinyan met Hu Jia
May 6, 2008 · No Comments
On May 4th, Zeng jinyan and Hu Jia’s mother and sister suddenly got a phone call and allowed them to meet Hu Jia, surprised. They chat about half an hour. Hu Jia hope her living in dignity and totally freedom.
more details, please step in: www.zengjinyan.org
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Hu Jia – silenced behind bars
May 5, 2008 · No Comments
Amnesty Int. Australia
Hu Jia, a renowned Chinese human rights’ activist, is serving three-and-a-half years’ in prison after giving interviews to overseas media and writing articles for the Internet.
In April this year, he was convicted of ‘inciting subversion of state power’. The 34-year-old, who started out as an AIDS activist seven years ago, has been repeatedly harassed and beaten by police because of his activities and outspokenness.
“Not counting one time in 2002, when Hu was detained by police while interviewing AIDS village inhabitants, he will have been under various forms of imprisonment for exactly four years on 3 April 2008,” said his wife Zeng Jinyan who herself remains under house arrest with couple’s baby daughter.[continues...]
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