Hu Jia’s trip to Hong Kong

Here is the direct transcript of an interview with Hu Jia broadcast recently by the Cantonese service. You can read more about Hu in English here. He did in fact return to China on March 31:

Mandarin: Interview with Hu Jia (03/22/07)

Reporter: Christie

Christie (C): During an interview with our station’s Cantonese Service on Thursday, (March 22, 2007), Hu Jia stated that after over 200 days of house arrest, he was both mentally and physically exhausted. His wife Zeng Jinyan worried that he would not be able to endure if the situation continued, so she conceived the idea of sending him abroad to recuperate. They chose Hong Kong as their first leg. He was surprised that he did not meet with any obstruction when applying for the pass to Hong Kong.

Gao Yaojie: Interview with RFA

Here are some extracts of interviews with Chinese AIDS activist and retired gynecologist Gao Yaojie, broadcast last week on RFA’s Mandarin service

“I am very concerned that the authorities will find new ways to keep
me down, when I return. I am particularly worried about my family.
Both mine and my son’s e-mail accounts have been closed.  I want to publish
two books. One is a manuscript that I gave to a publisher in 2004,
which has been dragging its feet ever since. Now the material is out
of date, so I must update it and reorganize it. That book is called
“AIDS Orphans”. Another book is called “10 years in AIDS prevention”.