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By JEREMY PAGE BEIJING—China released one of its most prominent dissidents, Hu Jia, at the end of a 3½-year prison sentence for sedition, but appeared to ban him—like the recently released artist Ai Weiwei—from moving freely or talking to the media.
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Mr Hu, who used the Internet to expose the plight of AIDS patients, orphans and poor farmers among others, returned to his home in Beijing early Sunday morning, according to his wife, Zeng Jinyan.
"Safe, very happy. Needs to recuperate for a period of time," Ms. Zeng said in a message on Twitter. Ms. Zeng didn't answer telephone calls.
Her husband was convicted after criticizing the government in the run-up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
In a posting last week, Ms. Zeng had said that upon her husband's release he would be deprived of his political rights for one year and wouldn't be able to speak to the media.
"For this one year, the focus should be on treating his cirrhosis (of the liver), caring for parents and child, to avoid being arrested again," she wrote.
Mr. Hu, now 37 years old, won the European Parliament's top human-rights award, the Sakharov Prize, in 2008, six months after a Beijing court found him guilty of subversion and libel. He has been repeatedly denounced by the Chinese government as a criminal.
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REUTERS Zeng Jinyan, wife of freed dissident Hu Jia, shows an image of the couple in a 2010 file photo.
His release had been expected and didn't appear to be directly linked to the decision by Chinese authorities to free Mr. Ai, China's most famous contemporary artist, on Wednesday night after 81 days in detention at an undisclosed location.
Mr. Ai, 54, was among dozens of dissidents who were detained, confined to their homes, or simply disappeared after online appeals for a "Jasmine" revolution in China began circulating in the wake of the recent uprisings in the Arab world.
Some analysts and diplomats have suggested that Mr. Ai's release was connected to a visit by China's Premier Wen Jiabao to Hungary, Germany and Britain. The German and British governments have been particularly critical of Mr. Ai's detention.
Four of Mr. Ai's colleagues who were detained around the same time as him have also now been released, according to people close to the artist.
However, Western officials and activists have continued to raise concerns about the tight restrictions imposed on Mr. Ai and many other dissidents who have recently emerged from detention or imprisonment.
Getty Images A photo taken in 2007 shows Hu Jia, right, and his wife Zeng Jinyan in their apartment on the outskirts of Beijing.
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Mr. Ai says that under the terms of his release, he isn't allowed to talk to the media or to use Twitter, where he has a following of more than 88,000 people.
Chinese and foreign legal experts say there is no legal basis for such restrictions.
The Chinese government says that Mr. Ai was released because he confessed to economic crimes including tax evasion, agreed to pay back the taxes he allegedly evaded, and was suffering from a "chronic disease."
Hu Jia, one of China's most prominent dissidents, is reunited with his family after serving a three and a half year jail term. Video courtesy Reuters.
A Foreign Ministry spokesman declined to comment on Mr. Ai's media gag Thursday, but said he remained under investigation for one year, during which time he must apply for permission to travel and can't interfere with evidence or witnesses.
Chinese authorities have also kept another activist, Chen Guangcheng, and his wife under unofficial house arrest in eastern China since he was released from prison last fall.
Reporters who have tried to visit Mr. Chen and his wife have been kept away by a local security detail.
Write to Jeremy Page at [email protected]
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发表于 2011-6-27 12:13
