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China activist shuts AIDS charity under official pressure
BEIJING — The wife of jailed Chinese activist Hu Jia said Thursday she is shutting down a children's AIDS charity she heads due to harassment from tax officials and tightened restrictions on her activities.Zeng Jinyan said in an entry on her blog that authorities were putting her under heightened pressure through repeated tax inspections related to the Ai Yuan Information Center.
The charity coordinates support for children with AIDS and orphans of the disease's victims, among other activities.
"Simultaneous with the tax inspections, the controls imposed upon me personally have been tightened," said Zeng, who has faced house arrest or other restrictions for years because of Hu's activism and her involvement in it.
Hu became one of China's most prominent activists through years of work campaigning for civil rights, environmental protection and the plight of China's marginalised AIDS sufferers.
He was jailed in 2008 for three and a half years on a charge of inciting subversion, a vague charge critics say is used to silence dissenters.
"As the legal representative, I officially announce that the Beijing Ai Yuan Information Center is shut down," Zeng wrote.
She also called on volunteers involved in the charity's work to do their best to continue providing help to children who have benefitted from the organisation.
Activists and government critics have reported that China's Communist authorities have stepped up pressure on them in the wake of the Nobel Peace prize awarded to jailed dissident writer Liu Xiaobo last month.
Liu, 54, was sentenced to 11 years in prison last December on subversion charges after co-authoring a 2008 petition calling for sweeping political reform that has been circulated online and signed by thousands.
The awarded deeply embarrassed and angered China.
Last year, a legal research centre whose lawyers were well-known for taking on human rights cases in China said it was shut down after Beijing tax authorities levied a fine of 1.42 million yuan (214,000 dollars) against it.
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