Birth date 1976-02-15
Birth place Wulian County, Shandong Province
Resident place Shijingshan District, Beijing
Education LL.B. at School of Law, Shandong University
Profession Internet writer and a lawyer at Beijing Fengrui Law Firm (ICPC honorary member)
Date of arrest 2015-07-10 (detained), 2015-08-04 (assigned residence residential surveillance), 2016-01-08 (arrested)
Organ of arrest Hexi Branch of Public Security Bureau of Tianjin City
Cause of arrest unknown as one of “709” lawyers arrested during the large scale crackdown on HR lawyers and activists started on 9 July 2015.
Charge Subversion of the state power, Suspicion of creating troubles and inciting subversion of the state power (detention)
Date of sentence 2018-12-26 (hearing), 2019-01-28(verdict)
Organ of sentence No. 2 Intermediate People’s Court of Tianjin City
Sentence Four years and six months imprisonment and five years deprivation of political rights
Defender Lawyer LI Zhongwei (replaced), YU Wensheng (replaced), CHENG Hai (rejected by the police), LIN Qilei (rejected by the police), CHEN Youxi (assigned by the authorities but rejected by defence), LIU Weiguo
Place of jail Hexi Detention Center, Tianjin; Tianjin 2nd Detention Center
Situation in jail possibly tortured
Date of release 2020-03-26 (?)
Family contact LI Wenzu (wife)
Donation to
Case adopted by ICPC
Current Status Main case
incommunicado since 2015-07-10
Reference
https://www.chinesepen.org/english/wang-quanzhang-china-jails-leading-human-rights-lawyer
http://www.chrlawyers.hk/en/content/wang-quanzhang
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/two-years-after-disappearance-wang-quangzhang-denied-visits-from-defense-team-12062017110805.html
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2111062/wang-quanzhang-last-709-lawyer-left-chinas-legal-limbo
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-china-blog-39974953
https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2017/02/china-intent-eliminating-civil-society/
http://www.chrlawyers.hk/en/content/wang-quanzhang
http://www.chrlawyers.hk/en/content/wang-quanzhangs-wife%EF%BC%9Aquanzhang%EF%BC%8Cwe-are-waiting-you-come-home
http://www.hrichina.org/en/citizens-square/rights-defense-lawyer-wang-quanzhangs-letter-his-parents-written-his-detention