78. HU JIA (released)

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78.  HU Jia

Pen name               

Sex                          Male

Birth date                1973-07-25

Birth place              Beijing

Resident place         Beijing

Education               B.Sc. in Information Engineering at Beijing Institute of Economics (1996)

Profession              Freelance reporter, civil rights, environmental and AIDS activist, and former editor of Beijing TV (Honorary Member of ICPC)

Date of arrest          2007-12-27 (detained) /2008-01-29 (arrested)

Organ of arrest       Public Security Bureau of Beijing City

Cause of arrest       Internet writing and publishing reports and comments on various social issues

Charge                   Inciting subversion of state power

Date of sentence     2008-04-03

Organ of sentence   1st Intermediate People’s Court of Beijing City

Sentence                  3 Years and 6 months imprisonment and 1 year deprivation of political rights

Defender                 Lawyer LI Jingsong and LI Fangping

Place of jail             Beijing Prison, Huangcun Town, Daxing District, Beijing

Situation in jail        Liver cirrhosis

Date of release        2011-06-26

Family contact       ZENG Jinyan (wife), Tel: 0086-10-81929880, 0086-13810673273 (m), Address: No. 542, Unit 5, Building 76, BOBO Freedom City, Dongguoyuan, Tongzhou district, 101100 Beijing , China

Donation to

Case adopted by     ICPC

Current Status         Main case

Release on expiry of the sentence on 2011-06-26

(Therefore the case closed) ICPC keeping contact

 References              http://crd-net.org/Article/Class9/Class15/200712/20071228200620_6910.html                                 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu_Jia_(activist)

http://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E8%83%A1%E4%BD%B3_%281973%E5%B9%B4%29&variant=zh-cn (Chinese)

http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/shenrubaodao/2007/12/28/hujia/(Chinese)