{"id":245,"date":"2008-12-26T07:02:19","date_gmt":"2008-12-26T06:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/new\/htb\/?p=245"},"modified":"2013-08-23T13:11:20","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T13:11:20","slug":"chinese-aids-activist-wins-human-rights-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/245","title":{"rendered":"Chinese AIDS activist wins human rights prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On 23 October 2008, Hu Jia, a Chinese advocate for human rights was awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, Europe&#8217;s most prestigious human rights prize.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An article in the New York Times referred to the award as a pointed rebuke of China&#8217;s ruling Communist Party that came as European leaders were arriving in Beijing for a weekend summit meeting. &#8220;Mr. Hu, 35, was given the prize by the European Parliament despite warnings from Beijing that his selection would harm relations with the European Union&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Mr. Hu testified via video link before a hearing of the European Parliament about China&#8217;s human rights situation. Weeks later, Mr. Hu was jailed and later sentenced to three and a half years in prison on a conviction for subversion based on his critical writings about Communist Party rule.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Hu has been one of China&#8217;s leading figures on a range of human rights issues, while also speaking out on behalf of AIDS patients and for environmental protection. The European award comes after he had been considered a frontrunner for the Nobel Peace Prize, only to lose to the former president of Finland, Martti Ahtisaari.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Hu remains imprisoned in Beijing. His wife, Zeng Jinyan, a prominent blogger and human rights activist, has lived for months under house arrest with the couple&#8217;s infant daughter.<\/p>\n<p>Source: NY Times (October 24, 2008).<\/p>\n<p>Links:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hu_Jia_(activist)\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hu_Jia_(activist)<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zeng_Jinyan\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zeng_Jinyan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 23 October 2008, Hu Jia, a Chinese advocate for human rights was awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, Europe&#8217;s most prestigious human rights prize. An article in the New York Times referred to the award as a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}