{"id":26727,"date":"2008-10-23T05:45:03","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T12:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=26727"},"modified":"2008-10-23T21:00:52","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T04:00:52","slug":"hu-jia-wins-european-rights-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/10\/hu-jia-wins-european-rights-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Hu Jia Wins European Rights Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/asia-pacific\/7686026.stm\">BBC News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of China&#8217;s most prominent human rights activists, <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/tag\/hu-jia\/\">Hu Jia<\/a>, has won the European Parliament&#8217;s prestigious Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. <\/p>\n<p>Mr Hu, a democracy, environment and Aids activist, is serving a jail term for inciting subversion of state power. <\/p>\n<p>The parliament&#8217;s president said Mr Hu was &#8220;one of the real defenders of human rights&#8221; in China, and that the award would support Chinese activists. <\/p>\n<p>An angry Beijing had put pressure on the parliament not to honour Mr Hu. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/news\/expert\/infopress_page\/015-39974-297-10-43-902-20081020IPR39973-23-10-2008-2008-false\/default_en.htm\">Sakharov Prize 2008 awarded to Hu Jia<\/a> from European Parliament, and the Chinese government&#8217;s reaction to the announcement, <a href=\"http:\/\/afp.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5jKAZQA3pVBQhgl1bk8anE5jJpDlg\">via AFP<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Update: Amnesty International has called on the Chinese government to release Hu Jia. See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601089&#038;sid=alKwjvTFPi.8&#038;refer=china\">this Bloomberg report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From BBC News: One of China&#8217;s most prominent human rights activists, Hu Jia, has won the European Parliament&#8217;s prestigious Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. Mr Hu, a democracy, environment and Aids activist, is serving a jail term for inciting subversion of state power. The parliament&#8217;s president said Mr Hu was &#8220;one of the real [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[116,34,100,1051],"tags":[2255,396,6273],"class_list":["post-26727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","category-human-rights","category-politics","category-top-article","tag-activists","tag-eu","tag-hu-jia","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Hu Jia Wins European Rights Prize<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/10\/hu-jia-wins-european-rights-prize\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hu Jia Wins European Rights Prize\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From BBC News: One of China&#8217;s most prominent human rights activists, Hu Jia, has won the European Parliament&#8217;s prestigious Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. 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