Pen name
Sex Male
Birth date 1973-03-02
Birth place Minquan County, Shangqiu City, Henan Province
Resident place Beijing City
Education LLB and MA at Lanzhou University, JD at Beijing University
Profession Lecturer of Beijing Posts and Telecommunications University, head of the NGO Open Constitution Initiative (ICPC honorary member)
Date of arrest 2013-07-16 (detained), 2013-08-22 (arrested 1st); 2020-02-15 (designated residencial surveillance, 2nd), 2020-06-19 (arrest)
Organ of arrest Public Security Bureau of Beijing City (1st); Public Security Bureau of Linxi City, Shandong Province (2nd)
Cause of arrest Calling for officials to disclose property and initiating the New Citizens’ Movement in China (1st); online dissident posts, including an open letter of advising President Xi Jinping to resign (2nd)
Charge Assembling a crowd to disrupt order in public places (1st); suspecionoof inciting subversion of state power (2nd)
Date of sentence 2014-01-22 (hearing), 2014-01-26(verdict), 2014-04-11(1st); not yet (2nd)
Organ of sentence No. 1 Intermediate People’s Court of Beijing City, Beijing (appeal, 1st); not yet (2nd)
Sentence 4 years imprisonment (1st); not yet (2nd)
Defender Lawyer ZHANG Qingfang (1st); lawyers LIANG Xiaojun and MA Wei (2nd)
Place of jail No. 3 Detention Center of Beijing City (1st); unknown location (residencial surveillance, 2nd), Detention Center of Linshu County, Shandong Province (since his arrest on 2020-06-19)
Situation in jail OK (1st); unknown (2nd)
Date of release 2017-07-15 (1st); not yet (2nd)
Family contact CUI Zheng(wife); Ms. Xu (sister)
Donation to
Case adopted by ICPC, PEN America
Current Status main case
Reference
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20200702/p2g/00m/0in/035000c
https://pen.org/press-release/pen-america-condemns-formal-arrest-of-writer-and-civil-rights-advocate-xu-zhiyong/
https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2020/02/activist-xu-zhiyong-detained-after-50-days-in-hiding/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xu_Zhiyong
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-25900272
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-26984386
https://chinachange.org/tag/xu-zhiyong/
https://www.rienner.com/title/To_Build_a_Free_China_A_Citizen_s_Journey