100. HUANG XIAOMIN (Released)

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 Sex                                Male

 Birth date                1962-10-18

Birth place               Shule County, Kashi Prefecture, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region

Resident place         Chengdu City, Sichuan Province

Education               Graduated at Department of Agronomy, Kashi College of Agriculture in 1986,

Profession              Freelance writer and reporter, HR activist, former college teacher (ICPC Member since January 2012)

 Date of arrest         2009-03-01 (detained), 2009-04-01 (arrested); 2017-05-18 (detained, 2nd)

 Organ of arrest       Jinniu District Branch of Public Security Bureau of Chengdu City, Sichuan Province

Cause of arrest     covering an event outside the main gate of Intermediate People’s Court of Chengdu City, in Sichuan Province, where a few dozens of the petitioners’ was demonstrating in chain of thread tying themselves, allegedly organized and led by a petitioner Bao Junsheng, to protest the court injustice and calling for the release Huang Qi, the director and webmaster of Tianwang Human Rights Center (THRC) who had been detained since May 2008; and sending his report with photos for online publication at THRC’s website and other overseas Chinese media, thus prosecuted in the same case together with Bao and other 8 individuals involved in the event (1st); dissident writtings and media interviews, including the online and media appeals to support a retired CCP school teacher Zi Su (arrested allegedly on ” inciting subversion of state power” for his call for direct elections in the CCP), and also to concern the case of his brother Huang Yunmin (a resigned judge arrested on “inciting ethnic hatred and discrimination” for his legal assistances to ethnic minorities in Xinjiang Autonomous Region) (2nd)

Charge                         Assembling a crowd to disturb social order; picking quarrels and creating troubles (2nd)

Date of sentence     2010-04-08 (hearing), 2010-09-28 (verdict) , 2011-05-10 (appeal); 2019-07 (2nd)

 Organ of sentence  Shizhong District People’s Court, Intermediate People’s Court of Leshan City(appeal); Jinniu District People’s Court, Chendu City, Sichuan Province (2nd)

Sentence                  2 years and half imprisonment (1st); 2 years and half imprisonment (2nd)

Defender                 Lawyer Qiu Shiming (1st); lawyer He Wei (2nd)

Place of jail            Detention Center of Leshan City (1st); Detention Center of Chengdu City (2nd), Sichuan Province

Situation in jail       Bleeding induced pneumonia (once sent to hospital for treatment), lymph node swelling and heart disease (1st); suffering from high blood pressure and stomach troubles (2nd).

Date of release        2011-08-31 (1st); 2019-11-17

Family contact        HUANG Xiaoqin (sister ), Tel: +86-18916047175

Donation to           

 Case adopted by     ICPC

Current Status        Released due to expiry of sentence on 2019-11-17

 References
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/sichuan-huang-09052017124727.html
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/25969/
http://www.internationalpen.org.uk/go/news/china-focus-writers-called-to-action
http://www.rsf.org/Arrested-a-year-ago-today-Sichuan.html