China: Bloggers, advocacy and Hu Jia

Guangzhou-based GV blogger John Kennedy has a post on the new Global Voices Advocacy site, which is dedicated to pro-blogging activism:

Global Voices Advocacy seeks to build a global anti-censorship network of bloggers and online activists dedicated to protecting freedom of expression and free access to information online.

His subject is Hu Jia , the Beijing-based AIDS activist and civil rights advocate who was detained on charges of “incitement to subvert state power” on Dec. 27, 2007. His wife, fellow blogger and activist Zeng Jinyan, is incarcerated by national security police at the couple’s home in Bobo Freedom city (mapped by bloggers in the Google mapshot in John’s post, including the positions of national security cops), along with the couple’s two-month-old baby daughter Continue reading