Pen name
Sex Male
Birth date 1953-08-11
Birth place Wuhan City, Hubei Province
Resident place Wuhan City, Hubei Province
Education Graduated from a technical secondary school
Profession writer and HR activist, former factory worker and chief editor of Human Right Watch newsletter (ICPC member since May 2011)
Date of arrest 1998-11-30 (1st); 2015-01-09 (2nd, administrative detention),2015-01-19 (assigned residence residential surveillance), 2015-03-30 (criminal detention), 2015-05-06 (arrest)
Organ of arrest Public Security Bureau of Wuhan City, Hubei Province
Cause of arrest Applying for registration of Hubei Provincial Preparation Committee of Chinese Democracy Party(1st); dissident writings and postings, organising China Human Rights Watch (2nd)
Charge Subversion of the state power (1st); suspicion of inciting subversion of the state power (detained, 2nd), Subversion of the state power (2nd)
Date of sentence 1998-12-21 (1st); 2018-05-11/12 (2nd, hearing), 2018-07-10 (verdict), 2018-09-26 (appeal)
Organ of sentence Wuhan Intermediate People’s Court, Hubei Province; High People’s Court of Hubei Province (appeal)
Sentence 12 Years imprisonment and 3 Years deprivation of political rights (1st); 13 Years imprisonment and 3 Years deprivation of political rights (2nd)
Defender Self (1st); lawyers LI Chunhua, LIU Zhengqing, LIN Qilei (2nd)
Place of jail Hanyang Prison, Wuhan City, Huibei Province (1st), No. 2 Detention Center of Wuhan City, Huibei Province (2nd)
Situation in jail health worsening in heart, liver, stomach and eyes, nearly blind, untreated (1st); health worsening in heart with ultra high blood pressure, and very tight restriction to read and write (2nd)
Date of release 2010-11-29 (1st)；2028-01-20(?)
Family contact ZHAO Suli (wife)
Donation to
Case adopted by ICPC
Current Status Main Case
References
https://www.chinesepen.org/english/final-verdict-on-qin-yongmin-from-the-hubei-provincial-high-peoples-court
https://www.chinesepen.org/english/qin-yongmin-prominent-chinese-dissident-jailed-for-13-years
https://www.nchrd.org/2018/01/qin-yongmin/
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/dissident-wife-12292017125713.html
http://www.chinesepen.org/english/fears-grow-for-disappeared-wife-of-detained-chinese-activist
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/renquanfazhi/ql2-06102016102437.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qin_Yongmin
http://www.chinesepen.org/english/veteran-chinese-rights-activist-qin-yongmin-being-probed-for-subversion
http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGASA170141999?open&of=ENG-CHN
http://www.alliance.org.hk/prison/?lang=c&viewid=470 (Chinese)
http://www.chinesepen.org/blog/archives/35226 (Chinese)