So Hu Jia did win the European Parliament’s Sakharov Prize (see previous post). As I said, it’s at least as likely that this will make his life worse rather than better, at least in the short term. A major Europe-China Summit is coincidentally taking place right now in Beijing, supposedly the largest ever. This should make for some interesting exchanges. Here’s a picture of Hu taken last year at his home. (For the record, his t-shirt features a picture of another jailed dissent, the blind lawyer Chen Guangcheng)
