Zeng Jianyan, wife of the detained activist Hu Jia, said once she was so angry that she bit one of the policemen who put his hand across her face. Her two-month old baby may do the same if she knows her father was taken away by the police. From Time The China blog:
Human Rights watch in New York have issued a call for Beijing to release activist Hu Jia, whose case we have followed closely. “The case of Hu Jia, who will as of February 27 have been detained for two months, has become emblematic of Beijing’s broad attempt to suppress dissent ahead of the Olympic Games,” the organization wrote…
The case of his wife Zeng Jinyan, on the other hand, may be more complicated. She’s been under house arrest since Hu’s arrest but is now sporadically contactable by phone, though anyone trying to interview her still gets turned away by the policemen camped outside her apartment. One piece of good news is that her baby is doing well (see photo above). She also doesn’t have any policemen actually living in the apartment with her, as they were for a while. Zeng (a former Time 100 pick, incidentally, to declare an interest, I guess) says she insisted on going out one day and there was the usual scuffle. This time, however, she got so angry that she bit one of the policemen who had his hand across her face. They moved out the same day, she recounts with a chuckle, though only as far as the apartment above hers.
See CDT’s previous post Video: Prisoner in Freedom City – Hu Jia and Zeng Jinyan and New York Times article: Dissident’s Arrest Hints at Olympic Crackdown
