****Chinese activist Hu Jia will not be allowed to leave prison on medical parole, according to his wife.****Zeng Jinyan applied for parole last week because of her husband’s deteriorating medical condition.
But she says the authorities have told the family that Mr Hu’s case does not meet the necessary requirements.
The 36-year-old is serving three-and-a-half years in prison after being convicted in 2008 of inciting subversion.
Parole denied
Ms Zeng said her husband has been ill for some time with liver problems, and was recently sent to hospital and tested for liver cancer.
That prompted her to apply for medical parole, a move supported by human rights campaigners.
But the prison authorities called Mr Hu’s mother on Monday to say medical results showed that he did not have cancer - and would not be granted medical parole.
“The head of Beijing’s prison hospital telephoned Hu Jia’s mother and said he had already been transported back to prison,” Ms Zeng said on the social networking site Twitter.
“The object on his liver is a blood tumour, and his cirrhosis does not meet medical parole requirements, so he will not be released.”
She said she was asking for a written version of the medical results.
Mr Hu is one of China’s best-known activists. He used to distribute information about human rights abuses in the country.
He was arrested in December 2007 in the run-up to the Beijing Olympic Games.
His wife, also an activist, is still under surveillance.This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.