Zeng Jinyan, whose husband and fellow human rights activist Hu Jia is serving three-and-a-half years in jail for subversion, is back under house arrest in her Beijing apartment.
AP quotes human rights group Chinese Human Rights Defenders saying she was taken out of Beijing during the Games to stop her from speaking to journalists.
" …. In a brief telephone conversation, Zeng said she would be back at her apartment Tuesday afternoon but could not give any more details because she was being monitored …"
A prison visit
Global Voices' John Kennedy has posted a translation of her latest blog, which she writes in Chinese.
She says first she was escorted, on 7 August, to see her husband in prison, before being taken to the northeastern city of Dalian. She blogs:
" … I met with Hu Jia and learned that letters he'd been recently sending home were getting confiscated by the prison. I still haven't received those family letters, so it's possible the situation has not improved …
" …Then I found out that Hu Jia had been "arranged" to go rake up leaves in the sun by himself, for seven hours every day, later with another inmate being sent out to assist. A book I'd sent Hu Jia before, "International Human Rights Treaties and the Protection of Prisoner's Rights" … had been confiscated by the prison and was returned to the family … "
Police still present
Zeng Jinyan – who was last year named among the world's 100 most influential people by Time magazine – blogs that she and her baby are safely home, but nothing has changed. "Things are still the same here, there are plainclothes police officers in the courtyard and at all the exits."
Despite the constant surveillance – by officers who watch her home and follow her around the city – she is a fierce human rights activist who uses her blog to bring attention to her husband's case and other rights abuses, writes AP.
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