Visitor ban
Nov 25 – A member of the European Parliament has been banned from visiting the family home of a jailed human rights activist.
Hu Jia was arrested in December 2007 as part of a crackdown on dissidents by the Chinese government.
He is now serving a three-and-a-half-year sentence for subverting state power after giving interviews to foreign media and publishing articles online.
His wife and daughter live in Beijing under virtual house arrest.
Liz Kennedy reports.
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