Sunday, June 26, 2011

International bully China releases another 'dissident'

Gee, I guess China needs something from the rest of the world, and is buffing up its image.

A thug in a dress is still a thug.

Prominent Chinese dissident Hu Jia has been released from prison and reunited with his family, his wife says.

Mr Hu, 37, served a three-and-a-half-year prison sentence for "inciting subversion". His term had been set to end on Sunday.

There is a heavy police presence outside Mr Hu's Beijing home and he now appears to be under some form of house arrest, a BBC correspondent says.

Mr Hu's release coincidentally follows that of artist Ai Weiwei last week.


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