Hu Jia

The Chinese activist Hu Jia suspects that the authorities may be preparing to sentence him to jail.

While the well-known Chinese dissident Xu Zhiyong is facing five years in prison for his political activism, an associate of his — the wealthy Chinese businessman Wang Gongquan — who was accused of the same crimes was allowed out on bail because he confessed.

A controversial new regulation prohibits AIDS victims from using spas or public baths.

Du Bin is in detention but update, saying that “prison is a life experience,” according to an update by his sister.

An exclusive interview about contemporary Chinese affairs with Martin Schulz, president of the European Parliament, in Belgium.

In China, officials’ performance ratings are closely tied to the growth of the gross domestic product. The result has been an environmental catastrophe, including the existence of hundreds of “cancer villages.”

Prominent dissident and human rights campaigner Hu Jia was detained and beaten in Beijing recently.

As the Chinese regime holds important political meetings, dissidents are rounded up en masse and media control tightened.

Eight years after the death of Zhao Ziyang, the former Chinese leader was commemorated after hundreds of mourners flocked to his house to pay their respects.

Well known Chinese activist Hu Jia has called on the U.S. government to pay attention to organ harvesting in China, decrying what he described as “demon”-like acts carried out by Chinese security forces.

Human rights activist Hu Jia says Chinese officials attempted to bribe him to reject the Sakharov Prize while in jail.

Chinese dissidents react to activist Li Wangyang’s reported “Death By Suicide” with “I won’t commit suicide” posts.

The Chinese dissident Hu Jia was apprehended from his home by 20 policemen and is being held at a detention center in Beijing for unspecified reasons.

Blind lawyer’s escape provides Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao an opportunity to vanquish domestic security czar.

The home of Chinese dissident Hu Jia and his wife Zeng Jinyan was ransacked by Beijing police on Jan. 11.

Several prominent Chinese dissidents are among the Nobel Peace Prize nominees this year, but they are not likely to be awarded, according to commentators.

When the European Parliament (EP) presented the 2008 Sakharov Award to Hu Jia, the recipient was in jail.

The 2008 Sakharov Prize for Human Rights Awards Ceremony was held at the European Parliament on December 17.

“Hu Jia is a human rights advocate living under a Communist regime,” says EU Parliament Member Helga Trüpel.