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78. HU JIA (released)

78.  HU Jia

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Sex                          Male

Birth date                1973-07-25

Birth place              Beijing

Resident place         Beijing Continue reading

MURONG XUECUN:Beijing’s Rising Smear Power

SEPT. 21, 2014

BEIJING — Chinese dissidents are constantly subject to all sorts of harassment. The artist Ai Weiwei can’t leave the country to attend exhibitions of his own work. Continue reading

“Daddy’s ‘Friends’ Are Actually Plainclothes Cops”-Activist Hu Jia’s Family Nightmare

ZENG JINYAN 09.19.14

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Zeng Jinyan, the wife of Chinese activist Hu Jia, in March 2006, Beijing.

The essay that follows was written by Zeng Jinyan, Continue reading

HU JIA: My Life Under House Arrest

One of China’s best-known dissidents writes about life as a prisoner of conscience in Beijing.

BY HU JIA AUGUST 19, 2014

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For the last decade, Continue reading

UNIDENTIFIED MEN ATTACK DISSIDENT BLOGGER NEAR HIS PARKED CAR

PUBLISHED ON FRIDAY 18 JULY 2014.
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Hu Jia links the attack to the recently launched “Return to Tiananmen Square” campaign

Unidentified men attacked dissident blogger and human rights activist Hu Jia as he was returning to his Beijing home on 16 July. The target of permanent police surveillance, Continue reading

You Won’t Get Near Tiananmen!’: Hu Jia on the Continuing Crackdown

IAN JOHNSON 06.02.14

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Activist Hu Jia in Beijing, April 2014. Continue reading

Tienchi Martin-Liao: Offshore Leaks Trigger Wave of Fear

by Tienchi Martin-Liao / February 12, 2014

Did China imprison activists and dissident writers to divert attention from corruption scandal?

Xu Zhiyong and Hu Jia Supporters Continue reading

‘You Won’t Get Near Tiananmen!’: Hu Jia on the Continuing Crackdown

Ian Johnson

Hu Jia
Hu Jia is one of China’s best-known political activists. He participated in the 1989 Tiananmen protests as a fifteen-year-old, studied economics, and then worked for environmental and public health non-governmental organizations. Continue reading