Zeng Jinyan (; born October 9, 1983), is a Chinese

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ger and human rights activist. Zeng was put under house arrest in August 2006 and the blog that details her life under constant surveillance and police harassment was subsequently blocked in China. Zeng continued to update her blog until July 27, 2008, before her disappearance. Zeng Jinyan and Hu Jia made a 31-minute documentary, "Prisoners of Freedom City," of their seven-month

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from August 2006 to March 2007. The couple was placed under house arrest again, two months later on May 18, 2007, for harming state security. Zeng Jinyan is dubbed "

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2.0" and was selected as TIME Magazine's 100 People Who Shape Our World in 2007 as a hero and a pioneer. One day before the opening ceremony of the

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in Beijing, Zeng was forcibly disappeared along with her baby daughter. She used to live in

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. In 2017 she earned a Ph.D. degree from the

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with a dissertation on filmmaker

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. Zeng was the 2017 Oak Human Rights Fellow at

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References

External links

Zeng Jinyan's blog (in Chinese)Clip of documentary, "Prisoners of Freedom City" on YouTube
*The full documentary, "Prisoners of Freedom City" on the WITNESS Hub
Part 1

Part 2

Part 3
Chinese human rights activists Living people 1983 births Weiquan movement Chinese bloggers Chinese women bloggers 21st-century Chinese women writers 21st-century Chinese writers People from Longyan Hakka people Hong Kong people of Hakka descent Writers from Fujian Hong Kong bloggers {{China-activist-stub