BLOG.POLI.2006.1''11'.JIA
* 1973, Beijing
Charge: Incitement to subvert state power
Prison: House Arrest in Beijing, Freedom City (Map)
Translated version of Hu Jia's blog:
http://www.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fhujiachina.spaces.live.com%2F&langpair=zh%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF8
On February 16, 2006, Hu was detained for 41 days. His detention was not acknowledged by the Chinese government. He returned on July 17, 2006. After his return to his apartment in Beijing, where he lives with his wife Zeng Jinyan (also an AIDS activist), Hu Jia was kept under house arrest until March 2007. Two months later, on May 18, 2007, Hu Jia and his wife were placed under house arrest again on charges of "harming state security." Hu Jia his wife Zeng Jinyan have remained active via emails and blogs while under house arrests.
In a video diary of February 2007, Hu Jia recorded life under house arrest intimidating surveillance with his wife, Zeng Jinyan.
See:https://twitter.com/freehujia
See:http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6mHrfE_1yf4&feature=related/
Using a Web camera, Mr. Hu participated in a European parliamentary hearing in Brussels in November 2007 about human rights in China. At the hearing he said: “It is ironic that one of the people in charge of organizing the Olympic Games is the head of the Bureau of Public Security, which is responsible for so many human rights violations. It is very serious that the official promises are not being kept before the games.”
On December 30, 2007, Hu was arrested at his home in Beijing by the Chinese police for "subverting state authority". His trial began in March 2008 on charges of "inciting subversion of state power and the socialist system", stemming from interviews he gave to the foreign media and political articles he wrote and published on the internet. The crime carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison. On April 3, 2008, Hu was sentenced to three years and six months in prison.
See also entry for Hu Jia's wife, Zeng Jinyan who is writing under house arrest in Hu Jia's blog.