Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Dissident’s Arrest Hints at Olympic Crackdown


Sounds like the Beijing Olympics are going to be running very smoothly. The International Olympic Committee (IOC), who chose this government to run their games, should be very happy and very proud of itself!

Onésimo Alvarez-Moro

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When state security agents burst into his apartment last month, Hu Jia was chatting on Skype, the Internet-based telephone system. Mr. Hu’s computer was his most potent tool. He disseminated information about human rights cases, peasant protests and other politically touchy topics even though he often lived under de facto house arrest.

Police and security officers, one gesturing to the photographer, put up crime tape on Friday to block access to the Beijing apartment of Hu Jia, a jailed human rights advocate.

Mr. Hu, 34, and his wife, Zeng Jinyan, are human rights advocates who spent much of 2006 restricted to their apartment in a complex with the unlikely name of Bo Bo Freedom City. She blogged about life under detention, while he videotaped a documentary titled “Prisoner in Freedom City.”

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