Topic: Hu Jia

Prominent Chinese dissident Hu Jia released from jail: wife

BEIJING (Reuters) - One of China's most prominent dissidents, Hu Jia, was reunited with his family in the early hours of Sunday after serving three and a half-years in jail on subversion charges, his wife said.Hu was convicted in 2008 for ...

It could have been me

The founder of the organisation Loving Source, who is also an HIV/AIDS campaigner, Hu Jia, was arrested in December 2007 and tried in March 2008 for "inciting subversion" after criticizing China's human rights record to a European Union parliamentary hearing ...

Hong Kong paper apologises for Hu caption error

<div><p>Hong Kong's leading English-language daily the South China Morning Post apologised on Wednesday after a photo caption misidentified China's President Hu Jintao as a jailed human rights campaigner.</p><p>The front-page caption on its Tuesday edition -- which ...
<div><p>Hong Kong's leading English-language newspaper has apologized for misidentifying Chinese president Hu Jintao as a jailed Chinese dissident in a front-page photo caption.</p><p>On Tuesday, the South China Morning Post's main front-page photo showed Hu arriving ...
<div><p>Chinese authorities have turned down a request for medical parole for jailed activist Hu Jia, who is suffering from a serious liver disease that could lead to cancer, his wife said Monday.</p><p>Zeng Jinyan told AFP that her ...
<div><p>The wife of jailed human rights activist Hu Jia appealed Thursday to prison authorities for his early release, claiming he is suffering from a serious disease that could develop into liver cancer.</p><p>Zeng Jinyan said she had submitted ...

Jailed China activist Hu Jia may have cancer: wife

<div><p>BEIJING (Reuters) - Imprisoned Chinese AIDS activist Hu Jia is suffering from a serious disease, possibly liver cancer, his wife said Thursday after making a formal appeal to security forces to release him on medical parole.</p><p>Hu's mother ...
The European Parliament on Thursday awarded a prestigious rights prize to jailed Chinese dissident Hu Jia despite pressure from China not to honour him, on the eve of a key Beijing summit.In a letter to senior lawmakers and the president of ...
The European Parliament on Thursday awarded a prestigious rights prize to jailed Chinese dissident Hu Jia on the eve of a key Beijing summit and despite pressure from Beijing not to honour him.In a letter to a number of lawmakers and ...

EU gives rights prize to Chinese dissident Hu

The European Parliament on Thursday awarded a prestigious rights prize to jailed Chinese dissident Hu Jia, on the eve of a key Beijing summit and amid allegations of Chinese pressure not to honour him.China had warned that giving the Sakharov Prize ...