Sex Male
Birth date 1965-01-17
Birth place Luan County, Tangshan City, Hebei Province
Resident place Beijing City
Education BA at Tianjin Nankai University, LLM at China University of Political Science and Law
Profession Lawyer and managing partner of Beijing Huayi Law Firm (ICPC honorary member)
Date of arrest 2014-05-04 (subpoenaed), 2014-05-06 (detained), 2014-06-13 (arrested)
Organ of arrest Public Security Bureau of Haidian District, Beijing City
Cause of arrest Attending memorial seminar of 4th June 1989 on 2014-05-03 in Beijing, posting critical comments on Weibo, China’s version of Twitter, and providing media with information from his investigation of corruptions
Charge Suspicion of creating disturbances, illegal access to citizens’ personal information, inciting to split the country and inciting ethnic hatred
Date of sentence 2015-12-14 (hearing), 2015-12-22 (verdict)
Organ of sentence The Second Intermediate People’s Court of Beijing
Sentence Three years in imprisonment, with a three-year suspension
Defender Lawyers ZHANG Sizhi (sick, and replaced by Mo), QU Zhenhong (arrested) , LI Jin (replaced by Gao), GAO Guangqing and MO Shaoping
Place of jail No. 1 Detention Center of Beijing City
Situation in jail Suffering from severe diabetes
Date of release 2015-12-22 (for residential surveillance)
Family contact MENG Qun (wife)
Donation to
Case adopted by ICPC
Current Status Released on 2015-12-22 due to suspension of his sentence for residential surveillance.
Reference
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-35157525
http://www.ibtimes.com/pu-zhiqiang-chinese-human-rights-lawyer-has-faced-inhuman-treatment-detention-wife-1763326
http://cn.nytimes.com/china/20140507/c07lawyer/
http://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-cn/%E6%B5%A6%E5%BF%97%E5%BC%BA (Chinese)
https://twitter.com/puzhiqiang (Chinese)
http://www.i11185.cn/magazine/article.jsp?aid=13181&issueid=3&issn=121-4564 (Chinese)
http://news.qq.com/a/20140506/056587.htm (Chinese)
http://www.chinanews.com/fz/2014/06-13/6279534.shtml (Chinese)
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/renquanfazhi/ql1-11242014100852.html (Chinese)
http://www.chinesepen.org/blog/archives/16615