Saw this movie last Sunday, and I think it's a interesting experience to watch this movie. You can watch the preview clips to decide if you want to watch it or not. But if you decided to watch it, I strongly suggest you to watch it in the theater. Enjoy!
The couple is the winner of Human Rights Award 2007 for China rewarded by Reporters Without Borders organization in France.
Hu-Jia is now been arrested into custody by the Chinese government and is been accused for "subverting state authority" and his wife, Zeng Jin-Yan and their 9 weeks old girl are now forbidden to contact anyone and are not allowed to go outside of her house, just after they got the award from RWB.
It's not a movie. It's a documentary video made by the prisoners themselves!
這不是一部電影,而是一部由被監禁的人自己所拍攝的紀錄片!
The prisoners are a couple who live in Beijing, China. They had been rewarded by the Reporters Without Borders as the winner of Human Rights Award 2007 for China in November 2007 for they have devoted themselves on the human rights progression in China, even under the close watch of the Chinese government (as to how close they are, you can watch the video to know).
However, they could not be there to accept the award because after they got the award the husband Hu-Jia (胡佳) is been arrested by the Chinese government into custody for "subverting state authority" and his wife, Zeng Jin-Yan (曾金燕), and their 8 weeks old daughter are forbidden to contact anyone and could not get outside of their house.
After I saw this documentary video and know the information, I feel very sad. How come a government can do this to its people? Knowing the human right situation in China and then turn back to see where I live, I feel very lucky that I can live in such a free country so I can think, talk and write about anything freely without too much limits! (Well, at least I will not get arrested if I criticize anything that happened in our government).
This is a shame to China for they have promised to improve their human right record and make it better in 2008, the Olympic year for China. In fact, it seems it's not better but getting worse because there are more dissidents been watched and arrested by the Chinese government.
China always claims Taiwan, the much more democratic country, as part of China. However, compared with this case I don't think so. Taiwan is now a very free country that China could not imagine. It's not possible to let Taiwan people to accept the current Chinese government. If China really wants Taiwan back, please change yourself first! If not, sorry I would not agree Taiwan is a part of China.
Now some Chinese people have made an announcement to demand the immediate release of Hu Jia and request other Chinese netizens to join. If you are interested, please send your name and your place to forhujia@gmail.com or forhujia2008@gmail.com.
And Chinese netizens are now calling people to go to Zeng Jin-Yen's house in Beijing to see her and her little young baby tomorrow afternoon. It would be a challenge to them and might have a conflict with the Beijing policemen. I just pray they won't get arrested or been badly treated by the policemen....