Beijing (CNN) -- Zeng Jinyan knows all too well what it was like to be a prisoner in her own home.
"Living under police watch for a long time and with all connections to the outside world cut off -- it was very painful and hard to endure," said the 27-year-old charity worker.
Zeng was not charged with any crime but was put under house arrest for several months in 2008 after police arrested her husband Hu Jia, a pro-democracy activist. Hu was later sentenced to three and a half years' imprisonment for "inciting subversion of state power."
Fellow activist Liu Xiaobo, this year's Nobel peace prize laureate, was convicted of the same crime on Christmas Day 2009 and is serving an 11-year sentence. Liu Xia, Liu Xiaobo's wife, has been under house arrest since the award was announced on October 8.
China creates its "Peace Prize" and then the day before the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize the Chinese government decides to arrest and or intimidate those who disagree with its polices. That's showing real peace and tolerance.
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