 Freelance reporter and blogger, civil rights, environmental and AIDS activist, arrested December 27, 2007 at his home in Beijing on suspicion of “inciting subversion of state power.” Hu was officially charged on January 30, 2008 by the Beijing Municipal People’s Procuratorate, and on March 7, his case was submitted to the prosecution. Hu stood trial on March 18, and on April 3, he was sentenced to three and a half years in prison and one year’s deprivation of political rights. He is currently being held in Beijing Prison, where his health has sharply deteriorated due to prison conditions. Hu was hospitalized in March 2010 amidst fears that he might have liver cancer; however, officials claimed that it was instead a vascular cyst, and he was returned to prison in early April. Repeated requests for medical parole have been denied. |
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