Sex Male
Birth date 1956-01-07
Birth place Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province
Resident place Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province
Education B.A. in history at Hangzhou University (now Zhejiang University), 1983
Profession Freelance writer and human rights activist, formerly teacher of a police academy dismissed in 1993 due to his dissident activism (ICPC Member since October 2011)
Date of arrest 2007-08-24 (detained) ,2007-09-29 (arrested); 2014-07-08 (detained) ,2014-08-13 (arrested) (2nd )
Organ of arrest Xihu District Branch of the Public Security Bureau of Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province; the Public Security Bureau of Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province(2nd )
Cause of arrest Internet writing and publishing dissent articles, concerned with the corruption of local governments violating the rights of citizens who appealed for justice on lost land/house, etc. ; Internet writing and publishing dissent articles, and participation in human rights activities (2nd )
Charge Inciting subversion of state power; Subversion of state power (2nd )
Date of sentence 2008-02-05 (1st),2008-04-07 (appeal);2016-06-17 (2nd), 2016-11-01 (appeal)
Organ of sentence Intermediate People’s Court of Hongzhou City, Zhejiang Province (1st), High People’s Court of Zhejiang Province (appeal) ; Intermediate People’s Court of Hongzhou City (2nd), High People’s Court of Zhejiang Province (appeal)
Sentence 4 Years imprisonment and 1 year deprivation of political rights (1st);11 years imprisonment and 5 years deprivation of political (2nd)
Defender Lawyers MO Shaoping and Ding Xikui (1st & 2nd )
Place of jail Changhu Prison, Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province (2nd , since 2016-12); Xijiao Prison, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province (1st)
Situation in jail Suffering from prostatitis(1st); tortured, suffering from hypertension and diabetes
Date of release 2011-08-23(1st); 2025-07-07 (2nd)
Family contact WANG Xue’e (wife), Tel: 0086-571-88057334, Address: Jiulian Village 31-110-108, 310012 Hangzhou City, Zhejiang, Province
Donation to
Case adopted by ICPC
Current Status Main Case
References
http://www.chinesepen.org/english/china-tries-two-opposition-party-activists-for-subversion
http://www.chinesepen.org/english/another-zhejiang-democracy-activist-in-custody-for-subversion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%BC_Gengsong
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/activist-07102014111324.html
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/881354-chinese-activist-and-writer-lu-gengsong-accused-of-subversion/
http://chrdnet.com/tag/lu-gengsong/