201. WANG QUANZHANG

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Wang QuanzhangSex                               Male

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