{"id":29957,"date":"2012-10-01T09:17:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T09:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=29957 "},"modified":"2012-10-01T09:17:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T09:17:00","slug":"29957-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=29957","title":{"rendered":"Hu Jia goes on hunger strike to free himself from house arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mzzg.org\/UploadCenter\/ArticlePics\/2012\/39\/2012101hujiaantinationaleducation.jpg\" alt=\"2012101hujiaantinationaleducation.jpg (486&#215;302)\" \/><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>Hu Jia following his hunger strike in support of Hong Kong protestors.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Beijing-based human rights activist Hu Jia revealed on Twitter last night that his wife, Zeng Jinyan, and their daughter, Qianci, were able to leave the mainland on September 7 after having been denied permission to travel earlier this summer.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Zeng is now in Hong Kong where she will continue her studies.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Bad news for Hu, however. He wrote on Twitter the same day Zeng and Qianci left of being placed under house arrest during US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton&#8217;s visit to his city September 4-5, and then attacked outside his home by domestic security police the following day, only to be ignored by local police when he called to report the incident.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Also on September 7, Hu began his own 24-hour hunger strike in support of protests in Hong Kong against national education.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>After several days of relative silence, Hu has returned to Twitter to write that harassment has been stepped up &#8211; first the rear tires on his (non-Japanese) car were slashed on September 13, and then yesterday he says he was attacked again by domestic security police stationed outside his home who now won&#8217;t let him leave even to go to the market to buy food.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>And so he&#8217;s back on hunger strike, which Hu says he won&#8217;t give up until he regains his freedom.<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;div&gt;Beijing-based human rights activist Hu Jia revealed on Twitter last night that his wife, Zeng Jinyan, and their daughter, Qianci, were able to leave the mainland on September 7 after having been denied permission to travel earlier this summer.&lt;\/div&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ChinaHumanRights","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}