Pen name Xiao Xiao, Lu Yue, Fu Qing etc.
Sex Female
Birth date 1944-02-23
Birth place Chongqing City
Resident place Haidian District, Beijing City
Education University graduate
Profession Freelance journalist (ICPC honorary director, honorary member of Czech, Swedish, Danish, Swiss Italian and Reto-Romansh PEN Centers)
Date of arrest 2014-04-24 (detained), 2014-05-30 (arrested)
Organ of arrest Public Security Bureau of Haidian District, Beijing City
Cause of arrest Input a document of the General Office of CPC Central Committee to digital file and posting it on overseas websites
Charge Illegally providing state secrets overseas
Date of sentence 2014-11-21 (hearing)，2015-04-17 (verdict)；2015-11-24(appeal hearing), 2015-11-26 (appeal verdict)
Organ of sentence No. 3 Intermediate People’s Court of Beijing City, High People’s Court of Beijing City (appearl)
Sentence 5 years imprisonment (reduced from 7 years by appeal court) and one year deprivation of state rights
Defender Lawyer ZHANG Sizhi (hospitalized), MO Shaoping and Shang Baojun
Place of jail No. 1 Detention Center of Beijing City
Situation in jail Suffering from heart disease, high blood pressure and Meniere’s syndrome, ever hospitalized
Date of release 2015-11-26 (on medical parole)
Family contact GAO Wei (brother)
Donation to
Case adopted by ICPC
Current Status Main Case
On 2016-11-25, the court noticed that the period of medical parole ended while starting to serve sentence outside the prison under surveillance temporarily for one more year due to her disease until 2017-11-25.
Reference
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/china-denies-gao-yu-permission-to-leave-for-germany-02052016120952.html
http://www.chinesepen.org/english/gao-yu-court-upholds-verdict-for-jailed-chinese-journalist
http://www.chinesepen.org/english/china-jails-gao-yu-for-seven-years-for-leaking-state-secrets
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gao_Yu_(journalist)
http://www.scmp.com/news/china-insider/article/1507195/beijing-detains-parades-journalist-gao-yu-state-tv-leaking-state