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)