Hu Jia, Yet Another Chinese Dissident

[Anonymous]

Brave soul.

[Anonymous]

After Traylor posted this article about Hu Jia, I thought about AIDS/HIV in China. It is interesting to note that after a year after Hu Jia was arrested, China released information on AIDS/HIV. During 2009 around 26,000 people died from AIDS. When thinking of China's population, which is estimated at around 1.3 billion, this number does not seem that significant. Although China does not have an HIV epidemic, there are certain groups that have a high incidence of infection and as a result pose a danger to the general population. China reported that AIDS had become the country’s leading cause of death among infectious diseases for the first time ever, surpassing both tuberculosis and rabies. Because of China's large population it is critical that the country continue with its efforts to prevent an epidemic, as well as raising awareness and reducing infections in the higher prevalence groups of drug users and homosexuals. Here is an article I found on this issue.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7896133.stm

[Anonymous]

The news media has such control. What is the real issue? The link to the article below was interesting.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2012/05/07/abc-nbc-all-ignore-chinese-dissidents-crusade-against-forced-abortio

[Anonymous]

Is it possible that the Chinese government may have censored the information that was released about people afflicted with HIV/AIDS? They have done so much to censor so much other information, I wouldn't be surprised if the information released was inaccurate. In researching I found that a in the mid 1990's many poor Chinese in rural areas were infected as the result of selling their blood and plasma for money. Makes me think, is money really the root of all evil??

[Rob_Hugo@PortNW]

I was just looking at some news reports and I ran across another Chinese dissident, Hu Jia, who was imprisoned for 3.5 years and released about a year ago. Hu was convicted in 2008 of "inciting subversion of state power" for being critical of human rights restrictions in China. Among other things, Hu campaigned for environmental protection, advocated for the rights of rural victims of AIDS, and criticized China's restrictions on political dissent. It seemed as if China was afraid that it's residents might be caught up in the euphoria that led to Arab Spring in the Middle East and Hu may well be under some sort of house arrest similar to that of Chen Guangcheng. I thought it was interesting that even though Hu was released last June, he was wearing a shirt with the picture of Chen Guangcheng on the front.

edited by straylor on 5/6/2012

[Anonymous]

Money and the media

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