In a Beijing complex with the Orwellian name Freedom City, I visited dissident Hu Jia on Dec. 20. He and wife Zeng Jinyan seemed upbeat, still euphoric over the birth of their daughter Qianci in ...

The government should immediately grant parole to the imprisoned rights advocate, who suffers from serious and chronic illnesses, Human Rights Watch said. (Human Rights Watch/IFEX) – New York, April 8 ...

(WiPC/IFEX) – The Writers in Prison Committee of International PEN is seriously concerned about the detention of activist and dissident writer Hu Jia who was arrested on 27 December 2007 on suspicion ...

China's government reacted angrily Thursday to the European Parliament's decision to give its top human-rights prize to jailed Chinese dissident Hu Jia, calling him a criminal and the award ...

“Freedom City” is the name of the apartment building in Beijing where Hu Jia, 35, who received the European Parliament’s 2008 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought on October 23, lived with his family ...

YAN'AN, China - Hu Jia, a prominent Chinese dissident whose activism on behalf of the environment and AIDS suffers landed him in prison for the last three and a half years, was released in the ...

Update: On Thursday morning, Hu Jia was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison. Hu Jia goes back on ‘trial’ in a few hours where it is expected he will be handed down a sentence of up to five years in ...

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 ...

The European Union honored jailed Chinese dissident Hu Jia with its top human rights prize on Thursday in defiance of Beijing’s warning that selecting him would seriously harm its relations with the ...