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Radio Free Asia
April 17, 2018
There are eyes on me the whole time." "It's probably linked to [Hu Yaobang's anniversary] I expect," he said. "The monitoring of dissidents and rights activists has been much tighter than in previous years." Beijing rights activist Hu Jia said the authorities are likely gearing up to ensure that as little happens asÃâà...
The Epoch Times
April 17, 2018
Amid growing pressure from the United States for China to reform its trade policies, the Chinese regime recently announced that it would eliminate tariff duties on all imported cancer drugs, including alkaloid medicines and Chinese herbal medicines. China's State Council announced the decision on AprilÃâà...
Radio Free Asia
April 2, 2018
'Sea of misery' Beijing-based rights activist Hu Jia said he himself is under house arrest, and has been unable to visit Liu. "It's her birthday today, but I have been under house arrest myself since 2013, when I tried to go and celebrate her birthday with her, to take a birthday cake to her home," Hu told RFA.
NEWS.com.au
March 25, 2018
Beijing rights activist Hu Jia told Radio Free Asia that the new agency was all about “exporting” China's ideology and dogma. “The Voice of China is under the control of the Central Propaganda Department,” Hu says. “This is an important tactic on Xi Jinping's part, and a huge weapon in his hands to changeÃâà...
Channel NewsAsia
March 21, 2018
Pro-democracy activist Hu Jia was placed on a "forced vacation" thousands of kilometres from Beijing during the two-week National People's Congress session. He has been under house arrest and constant police surveillance since 2013. Hundreds of lawyers and activists have been detained in the pastÃâà...
The Times
March 13, 2018
•China's central bank will regulate the banking and insurance sectors. Wang Yong, a state councillor, told the congress that the changes would modernise the government to make it more effective. However, Hu Jia, a prominent political dissident, called the new National Supervisory Commission a powerfulÃâà...
Taiwan News
March 12, 2018
Hu Jia, a Beijing based activist, described the amendment as "illegal," according to AFP. Hu called out Xi's hypocrisy in calling for the people to obey the constitution, while he used it to make himself immune to it. "He used the constitution as the ultimate legal weapon that binds officials and all citizens," saidÃâà...
Express.co.uk
March 12, 2018
Online censors have had to block phrases on the Chinese internet, including 'I disagree' and 'emperor' - alongside the image of Winnie the Pooh, to which Xi has been compared. An activist, Hu Jia, said: “Xi asked all people to obey the constitution, and then used the amendment to place himself above it.
Kuwait Times
March 11, 2018
Beijing-based activist Hu Jia, who says authorities forced him to leave the capital during the congress, called the amendment “illegal”. “Xi asked all people to obey the constitution, and then used the amendment to place himself above it,” he said. “He used the constitution as the ultimate legal weapon thatÃâà...
Times of India
March 11, 2018
Activists fear that removing term limits may lead to a further tightening of already strict controls on media, civil society and religion, as Xi tries to impose his highly ideological vision of socialism on every aspect of society. Beijing-based activist Hu Jia, who says authorities forced him to leave the capital duringÃâà...
Business Insider
March 8, 2018
Shen reportedly made comments online about Xi's plan to remove presidential term limits recently, and his friends and family believe this to be the cause of his arrest. If so, this might the first publicly-known arrest on the issue, though BBC did capture the moment another dissident, Hu Jia, was sent away on a "holiday" paidÃâà...
Business Insider
March 7, 2018
If so, this might the first publicly-known arrest on the issue, though BBC did capture the moment another dissident, Hu Jia, was sent away on a "holiday" paid for by the police, as China's legislature, the National People's Congress (NPC) got underway earlier this week. But the government's attempt to clamÃâà...
The Japan Times
March 6, 2018
Beijing-based activist Hu Jia said the party will not allow any other voices to speak up. “That's why I was cleared out of Beijing,” Hu said of the security apparatus which he said sent him away to the southern city of Zhongshan for the duration of the two-week congress. The legislators convening in Beijing'sÃâà...
BBC News
March 5, 2018
As China's annual parliament meets, one proposal in particular has caught the world's attention - the scrapping of the presidential term limits, potentially making Xi Jinping president for life. But his critics are not welcome at the party. The BBC captured rare footage of one of the most prominent ChineseÃâà...
BBC News
March 4, 2018
As China's annual parliament meets, one proposal in particular has caught the world's attention - the scrapping of the presidential term limits, potentially making Xi Jinping president for life. But his critics are not welcome at the party. The BBC captured rare footage of one of the most prominent ChineseÃâà...
Voice of America
March 1, 2018
Veteran political journalist Gao Yu, democracy activist Zha Jianguo, and rights activist Hu Jia were among those ordered to leave the city on a police-supervised "vacation" until ahead of the annual meeting of the NPC and its advisory body, the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Hu toldÃâà...
Radio Free Asia
February 27, 2018
Beijing-based activist Hu Jia said the crackdown on the legal profession is still under way. "Jiang Tianyong was detained and sentenced in Changsha, and then we have Wu Gan, who may not be a lawyer, but who was detained as part of the July 2015 crackdown," Hu said. "He got a very harsh sentence ofÃâà...
Radio Free Asia
February 15, 2018
A group of diplomats also visited housing rights activist Ni Yulan and veteran activist Hu Jia in Beijing's Tongzhou district on Wednesday, Ni said. ... Hu JIa said he had also received a visit, which he said was part of an annual round of visits made by foreign diplomats to dissidents, activists, and their familiesÃâà...
Radio Free Asia
February 14, 2018
But Beijing-based rights activist Hu Jia, a close friend of Liu Xia, said she could have insisted on making a quick visit to the store on one of her frequent trips to the hospital for medical treatment. “For Liu Xia, true freedom would mean that she was able to engage in social interactions freely inside China,Ãâà...
malaysiandigest.com
February 5, 2018
One critic of Ma's cozy relationship with Beijing, the dissident Hu Jia, has called it “the monitoring weapon in your pocket”, the Financial Times reported last month. A member of the National People's Congress, the Tencent chairman and CEO is not one to stray into murky political waters and is always onÃâà...
BBC News
August 19, 2017
Hu Jia, a fellow activist in Beijing, believes Liu Xia was forced to record the video. He told BBC Chinese: "Liu Xia smokes endlessly when she's stressed and you can see in the video that she kept holding a cigarette. "You can sense her helplessness, her frustration that the authorities have her life firmlyÃâà...
New York Times
July 20, 2017
BEIJING — For years, the fiery band of activists pushing for democracy in China looked to Liu Xiaobo, the jailed Nobel Peace laureate, as a source of inspiration. They created social media groups devoted to his iconoclastic poetry. They held up his photos at rallies, demanding justice and transparency.
Hong Kong Free Press
July 7, 2017
Hu Jia, a close friend of the couple, said that, since news of Liu's condition was made public, several hundred reporters, diplomats and friends had been unsuccessful in attempts to find Liu at the China Medical University No 1 Hospital, where authorities say he is staying. When an AFP reporter asked aboutÃâà...
Radio Free Asia
May 3, 2017
Hu Jia lies in a Beijing hospital, receiving treatment for acute pancreatitis, in late April. Photo courtesy of a Hu Jia supporter. A Chinese rights activist and former winner of the European Union's Sakharov human rights prize is critically ill in hospital after being admitted last weekend. Hu Jia, 43, was taken toÃâà...
The New York Review of Books
June 2, 2014
Hu Jia is one of China's best-known political activists. He participated in the 1989 Tiananmen protests as a fifteen-year-old, studied economics, and then worked for environmental and public health non-governmental organizations. A practicing Buddhist, Hu spent three and a half years in prison betweenÃâà...
New York Times
June 25, 2011
BEIJING — Hu Jia, one of China's most prominent social activists and a leading political dissident, was released from prison on Sunday after completing a 42-month sentence for state subversion, his wife, Zeng Jinyan, stated in a post on the American microblog Twitter. Mr. Hu, 37, was detained inÃâà...
The Standard
December 31, 1999
Pro-democracy activist Hu Jia was placed on a “forced vacation” thousands of kilometers from Beijing during the two-week National People's Congress session. He has been under house arrest and constant police surveillance since 2013. Hundreds of lawyers and activists have been detained in the pastÃâà...
Channel NewsAsia
December 31, 1999
Pro-democracy activist Hu Jia was placed on a "forced vacation" thousands of kilometres from Beijing during the two-week National People's Congress session. He has been under house arrest and constant police surveillance since 2013. Hundreds of lawyers and activists have been detained in the pastÃâà...
Radio Free Asia
December 31, 1999
Beijing rights activist Hu Jia said the station has been set up with the aim of exporting China's ideology beyond its borders. "The Voice of China is under the control of the Central Propaganda Department," Hu said. "This is an important tactic on Xi Jinping's part, and a huge weapon in his hands to changeÃâà...
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