"I don’t have a passport and therefore I couldn’t come to Europe to pick up the Sakharov Prize" the EU Parliament has awarded to "my husband. Now Hu Jia is in jail in Beijing. His physical conditions are better now. But we cannot talk freely as everything is subject to censorship." Zeng Jinyan is the wife of Sakharov Prize winner: the Chinese dissident has only recently been informed about the prize. His wife explains through a video message sent yesterday to the EU Parliament that "Hu would have liked to be here. Then he told me that perhaps the European Parliament awarded him the prize thinking of the work he did in the areas of AIDS and the environment." "What I did in terms of human rights said Hu Jia – was very far from sufficient and I will need to redouble my efforts." Zeng Jinyan recorded this message "aware of the risks she was taking," explained the President of the EU Parliament, Hans-Gert Pottering. In the video, the wife of Sakharov 2008 winner adds: "I have also been harassed like many other people." Then she recalls that Hu Jia’s wish is to establish "an international network to help the families of human rights activists in the world." ” ” ” “
