- Zeng Jinyan
Zeng Jinyan (Chinese: 曾金燕; born October 9, 1983), is a Chinese blogger and human rights activist. The wife of AIDS and environmental activist Hu Jia, Zeng became famous for a blog she had maintained throughout the disappearance of her husband, which was believed to be the working of China's secret police. [ [http://english.pravda.ru/news/world/29-03-2006/78007-China-0/ "Chinese AIDS activist missing for six weeks returns home," Pravda, March 29, 2006] ] Zeng was put under house arrest in August 2006 and the blog that details her life under constant surveillance and police harassment has been subsequently blocked in China. Zeng continued to update her blog until July 27 2008, before her disappearance.
Zeng Jinyan and Hu Jia made a 31-minute documentary, "Prisoners of Freedom City," of their seven-month
house arrest from August 2006 to March 2007. The couple was placed under house arrest again, two months later on May 18 2007 for harming state security. [ [http://hrw.org/english/docs/2007/05/21/china15979.htm/ "Activist Couple Accoused of Endangering State Security", Human Rights Watch, May 21, 2007] ] Zeng Jinyan is dubbed "Tiananmen 2.0." and selected as TIME Magazine's 100 People Who Shape Our World in 2007 as a hero and a pioneer. [ [http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/time100/article/0,28804,1595326_1615754_1616169,00.html/ "Zeng Jinyan - The TIME 100," TIME Magazine, May 14, 2007] ]One day before the opening ceremony of the
2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Zeng Jinyan was forcibly dissapeared [ [http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/08/09/asia/AS-China-Human-Rights.php "Chinese rights activist Zeng Jinyan disappears" International Herald Tribune, August 9, 2008] ] along with her baby daughter and is suspected to be mistreated by the Chinese police state.References
External links
* [http://www.zengjinyan.org/ Zeng Jinyan's blog (in Chinese)]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q_rcsoWFRk Clip of documentary, "Prisoners of Freedom City" on YouTube]
*The full documentary, "Prisoners of Freedom City" on the WITNESS Hub - [http://hub.witness.org/en/node/3867 Part 1] , [http://hub.witness.org/en/node/3864 Part 2] & [http://hub.witness.org/en/node/3861 Part 3]
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