Olympic prisoners: Hu Jia
Peter Terpstra
Published on 31 July 2009
Scores of Chinese journalists, bloggers and human rights activists were
arrested, put under house arrested or expelled from Beijing before and during
the Olympic Games. The Games have now finished and we call for their release!
Hu Jia was sentenced to three and a half years in prison on 3 April 2008, for
posting articles on websites and giving interviews to foreign journalists. He
had criticised the poor state of freedom of expression before the Games. Hu
was arrested on 27 December 2007, for “inciting subversion of state power”
before being tried by a Beijing court on 18 March. He was transferred on 8 May
to Hubai prison in Tianjin, 200 kilometres east of the capital, where he is
being held in harsh conditions. His wife, Zeng Jinyan, and their young
daughter are under house arrest in Beijing.
http://www.rsf.org/en-petition34043-Olympic_prisoners.html
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Amnesty International Report 2009 on China:
http://report2009.amnesty.org/en/regions/asia-pacific/china
Peter Terpstra
> Olympic prisoners: Hu Jia
And off course the list is much longer!
P.
Peter Terpstra
> Olympic prisoners: Hu Jia
And off course the list is much longer!
P.
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