Chinese activist Hu Jia freed but house imprisonment looms! w2 j" k% Y, L+ W# l! ^# v3 O+ Q
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; @$ A: B* S* Y2 N+ y8 `1 B9 K) k$ R公仔箱論壇 Zeng Jinyan, the wife of jailed Chinese dissident and AIDS activist Hu Jia, holds a photo of the couple during an interview in Beijing in this December 1, 2010 file photo. Hu was reunited with his family in the early hours of June 26, 2011, after serving three-and-a-half-years in jail on subversion charges, but he needed rest and was not ready to speak in public, said Zeng. Hu was convicted in 2008 for "inciting subversion of state power" for criticising human rights problems in China, and was seen by some supporters as a potential recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize before it went to another jailed Chinese dissident, Liu Xiaobo, last year.
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4 B9 J4 v" i8 |+ E1 W+ J* Oos.tvboxnow.comBEIJING—Hu Jia, one of China's leading human rights activists, was set free Sunday after 3½ years in prison, but many wonder whether the activist will be truly free — or face house imprisonment, a controversial technique increasingly used by China to silence critics.os.tvboxnow.com/ p* O6 U5 b8 H! _( u; m
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Hu, 37, was found guilty for “inciting subversion of state power” in 2008, after he posted essays and co-authored a letter on the Internet, criticizing China’s rights record in the lead-up to the Beijing Olympics.
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The letter charged that rather than delivering on its promise to improve human rights if it got the Games, the government had sold the world a bill of goods: the Olympics brought greater restrictions, not fewer.os.tvboxnow.com& |8 s$ [& Q7 V
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Hu Jia later won European Union’s prestigious Sakharov prize for Freedom of Thought and was touted as a Nobel Peace Prize contender.公仔箱論壇& b" a! Y( Q1 ]$ X" B2 Y
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Keen to prevent publicity about Sunday’s high-profile release, Chinese authorities delivered Hu Jia to his home in east Beijing under cover of darkness, at 2:30 a.m.
) \( Y3 \3 X1 [. g0 a“All’s well. Very happy. He needs to rest and heal for a period,” his wife and fellow activist Zeng Jinyan posted on Twitter. “Thank you everyone.”
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But given the intensification of the current crackdown on activists, Zeng declined interviews., u+ G5 E2 O7 _! r, z' ?# J
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“I’m worried that doing interviews at this stage might cause problems,” she told the Reuters news agency. “Please understand.”$ y6 r1 x3 G1 Q& ~6 {* s0 j
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# f. n' L' `$ f' ^' a; {: zThe Chinese government has used a combination of arrests and threats in a sweep of activists here in recent months, forcing normally outspoken critics to go silent.
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Even Ai Weiwei, the famed artist and outspoken government critic who was released last week after nearly 90 days of detention, has maintained a careful silence.
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Hu Jia, despite his slight build, had a reputation as a fearless human rights advocate and critic when he was handed his 3½ year jail sentence, plus one year of “deprivation of political rights,” in April, 2008.9 K2 {! @& |, A' M& g9 K, N& F
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How the government will administer the year of “deprivation,” and whether it will extend to Hu Jia’s use of social networking median — indeed, how Hu Jia will respond — is not yet clear.
8 @' X- G! y0 [tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb“Much will depend on the instructions that local police handlers will be given about how to manage Hu Jia during the coming year,” says Joshua Rosenzweig, senior researcher with the Dui Hua Foundation, a not-for-profit body that advocates for prisoners of conscience in China. ( v4 k* ~3 f: \" N
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The government’s brutal treatment of blind human rights lawyer Chen Guangcheng sparked outrage earlier this year. Released last fall, Chen has been illegally confined with his wife and mother-in-law in his tiny home in Shandong province.公仔箱論壇& L% I E+ T% V2 c6 ]% l' k
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After six months of unlawful house imprisonment, Chen managed to have a video of himself smuggled out and aired on the Internet, in which he explained his situation in detail.
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Afterwards, there were reports that Chen and his wife were savagely beaten and the windows in his home were replaced by boards so that the family now lives in perpetual darkness.! X5 t5 y$ P1 r6 G
Local thugs also block the roads to his home and Chen now lives in silent isolation.
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China’s authoritarian government has been anxious and paranoid watching other authoritarian regimes in north Africa and the Middle East challenged and toppled in the face of frustrated masses taking to the streets.
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Hu Jia returned home Sunday to his wife and mother and father in a compound ironically known as Bobo Freedom City.
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His daughter, Qianci, however was not home. Wife and mother Zeng Zinyan said earlier this month that she had taken their daughter to stay with relatives out of fear that the child could be trapped should the government decide to place the family under house imprisonment.
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Police took Hu Jia away from his home on Dec. 27, 2007 while Zeng was bathing their daughter — then just weeks old — in another part of the apartment.0 i* M9 y- t9 Q
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