Hu Jia

Hu Jia (born July 25, 1973, Beijing, China) is a Chinese dissident and human rights activist who was awarded the European Parliament’s Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in 2008. Hu’s parents were branded “rightist” during the political campaign under Mao Zedong in the 1950s, and they endured several decades of forced labour. While a student at the Beijing School of Economics (now Capital University of Economics and Business), Hu became involved in environmental causes....