Sex Male
Birth date 1955-11-14
Birth place Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province
Resident place Beijing
Education M. A. in Chinese Literature at Beijing University (1986)
Profession Freelance writer, family church leader, former lecturer at Beijing Language Institute (now Beijing Language and Culture University)
(Honorary member of ICPC, English PEN and PEN Canada, and ICPC member since December 2009)
Date of arrest 1992-05-27 (detained), 1992-09-27 (arrested, 1st); 2015-07-10 (detained, 2nd) ;2015-08-07 (assigned residence residential surveillance, 3rd), 2016-01-08 (arrest)
Organ of arrest Public Security Bureau of Beijing City (1st); Haidian Branch of Public Security Bureau of Beijing City (2nd); Public Security Bureau of Tianjin City (3rd)
Cause of arrest Founding Liberal Democratic Party of China (LDPC) and Free Labour Union of China, and drafting documents for LDPC and articles for commemoration of June-fourth victims in 1989 (1st); participation in a small home-gethering for anniversary commemoration of June-Fourth Tiananmen event in Beijing; dissident speeches on China’s democratization at meetings (3rd)
Charge Organising and leading counter-revolutionary group and counter-revolutionary propaganda instigation (1st); suspecion of making troubles (2nd); subversion of the state powder (3rd)
Date of sentence 1994-12-16, 1995-06-14 (appeal); 2016-08-03 (3rd)
Organ of sentence Beijing Intermediate People’s Court, Beijing High People’s Court (appeal)
Sentence 20 years imprisonment and 5 years deprivation of political rights (1st); 7.5 years imprisonment and 5 years deprivation of political rights (3rd);
Defender Self (plea of not guilty); lawyers assigned by the court (3rd)
Place of jail Beijing No 2 Prison, Postbox: 2357, Chaoyang District, 100023 Beijing (1st); No. 1 Detention Center of Beijing City (2nd); Changtai Prison, Tianjin City (3rd)
Situation in jail Under secondary restriction; tortured to have a broken and deformed finger (1st); forced to confess, and suffering from severe neurasthenia and diseases of heart, liver, stomach and ears but medical parole denied (3rd)
Date of release 2008-08-26 (reduction by 3 years and 9 months); 2016-06-05 (on bail, 2nd); 2022-10-25 (3rd)
Family contact HU Fengyun (elder sister), Tel: 0086-13807912885
Donation to
Case adopted by ICPC, English PEN, PEN Canada
Current Status Main case
References
http://www.chinesepen.org/english/icpc-statement-on-pen-international-day-of-imprisoned-writers-two-writers-honoured-the-liu-xiaobo-courage-to-write-award
https://u.osu.edu/mclc/2016/09/14/hu-shigen-thought/
http://www.chinesepen.org/english/china-jails-activist-for-7-5-years-for-subversion-amid-lawyer-crackdown
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/04/world/asia/china-hu-shigen.html?_r=0
https://gt.foreignpolicy.com/2016/profile/gou-hongguo-zhou-shifeng-hu-shigen-and-zhai-yanmin?636bee9f51=
https://chinachange.org/2014/05/05/scholars-and-lawyers-disappeared-after-june-4th-seminar-in-beijing/
http://www.englishpen.org/writersinprison/writersinexile/hushigen/
https://pen.org/nonfiction-memoir/how-big-character-xin