Door slams on young Chinese critic; Hu Jia has conducted a campaign against Beijing's abuse of human rights. This week he was jailed.(News) From: The Sunday Independent (South Africa) | Date: April 6, 2008 | COPYRIGHT 2008 Independent News & Media PLC. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

BYLINE: Clifford Coonan

The door to Hu Jia's apartment was always open to fellow Chinese who shared his desire for greater freedom, foreign friends or activists with issues to discuss. But it was always a question of when, not if, the Communist Party would lock up Hu, China's most famous dissident, who has been under house arrest for many months.

This week Hu, 34, was transformed into one of the world's most famous human rights defenders as China moved to stif...