Nobel prize for dissident?

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Nobel prize for dissident?

                               
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from BBC NEWS | James Reynolds' China by James Reynolds  (BBC News)
Is it possible that a skinny young man sitting in a Chinese jail will win the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize?
There's speculation that the Chinese activist Hu Jia - who'scurrently serving a three and a half year jail sentence - might beawarded this year's prize.

                               
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HuJia, who's 35, is already one of China's most prominentactivist/dissidents. He's campaigned for the environment, fordemocracy, and for the rights of people with HIV and Aids. TheCommunist Party objected to his activism. In April this year, a Beijingcourt found him guilty of "inciting subversion of state power".
I met Hu Jia a couple of times before he was jailed. The first timewas a year ago at the small Beijing apartment he shares with his wife,Zeng Jinyan, who's also an activist.
Hu Jia was a slight, shy figure. His wife - who speaks good English- was more talkative. Their apartment was cluttered with boxes, DVDs(including a few series of Friends) and baby stuff - Zeng Jinyan wasseven months pregnant with their first child. At the time, Hu Jia wasunder house arrest - police officers even slept on the floor rightoutside the front door to make sure he didn't escape. He was onlyallowed out of the house to accompany his wife for doctors' visits(followed by the police, of course).
A couple of months later, the couple went to hospital for the birthof their daughter, called Qianci. My colleagues and I filmed them inhospital as they got ready to check out and go back home. Hu Jia spentmost of his time filming his wife and daughter with his ownhi-definition video camera. Plain clothes police officers stood in thehospital parking lot, keeping an eye on the couple and their baby. Theofficers managed to miss Hu Jia when he went from one part of thehospital to another - they ran after him in a slight panic when theyrealised he was out of their sight.
At the end of 2007, Hu Jia was formally detained. We tried to go andinterview his wife at their apartment - but we were stopped byuniformed officers and taken to a nearby police post for our details tobe taken down. Then, in April, Hu Jia was tried and sentenced.
We haven't been able to interview Zeng Jinyan since the day herhusband was sentenced - the authorities still stop people from going tovisit her. But she does keep up a blog in Chinese.
To the Communist Party, the couple are annoying opponents whodeliberately break the law and try to embarrass the country. It's hardto tell what ordinary Chinese people make of Hu Jia and Zeng Jinyanbecause their activism is barely reported here.
This year's Nobel Peace Prize winner will be announced on Friday 10 October.