Two month ago in August, I signed a petition for Hu jia, urging our Chinese government to release Hu jia as soon as possible. He was jailed because he wrote several articles to criticize the ill behaviors of our government. Before that, he was already one of the leading figures of promoting human rights in China, and was under constent survalliance, (see his home-made documentary, “Prisoners in Freedom City” on Youtube).
A good news came today from the European Union that Hu jia was awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, Europe’s most prestigious human rights prize.
I am very happy for him. While he is still in a jail in Beijing, I believe that he won’t hear this news until very late, but he will know it and be happy eventually. It is interesting to see how will the highest Chinese leaders react on this news. Will they be upset or be happy?
This is what I heard so far about a lower official’s comment:
Behind the scenes, China had lobbied against Mr. Hu’s candidacy for the Sakharov Prize. On Oct. 16, Song Zhe, the Chinese ambassador to the European Union, wrote a critical letter to Mr. Pöttering.
“If the European Parliament should award this prize to Hu Jia, that would inevitably hurt the Chinese people once again and bring serious damage to China-E.U. relations,” Mr. Song wrote, according to The Associated Press.
In China, the government officials always claim that they have the right to represent all Chinese people, even people’s feelings. So when they, the officials, got hurt, they would say that all Chinese’s feeling got hurt. But apparently I am still a Chinese, holding a Chinese passport, and my feeling does not get hurt at all; instead, I am feeling so good. Maybe those officials are so numb that they could not even feel the real Chinese’s feelings.
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