I was browsing through New York times a while ago and I came across this article that brought my attention. I normally am only interested in world news and I was interested in this particular article because the guy's picture was next to the title "Chinese Activist wins Rights Prize."
He looked familiar because I wrote a paper about him last semester in my Intro to Human Rights class. That time, we were given assignments to write our views on a newspaper article. And the article was about Hu Jia, who was arrested because of what he wrote in his blog about the communist government on violation of human rights. I remember writing about how the Chinese government was violating the civil rights of the people by not giving them freedom of speech. I even remember reading about his poor wife who just gave birth at that time and was put into house arrest. Imagine stumbling upon the same guy again and this time, he is winning a prize for his actions.
Good always triump huh!
Too bad the Chinese government isn't happy about this.
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