10. XU Wei
Pen name Xu Lujun, Zhou Han
Sex Male
Birth date 1974-08-12
Birth place Yantai City, Shandong Province
Resident place Beijing
Education M. A. in Philosophy, BeijingNormalUniversity, 1999.
Profession Reporter and editor of Consumer Daily
(Honorary members of ICPC and GhanaianPENCenter)
Date of arrest 2001-03-13 (secretly detained) / 2001-04-20 (arrested)
Organ of arrest National Security Bureau of Beijing City
Cause of arrest Founding the New Youth Study Group with Zhang Honghai and Jin Haike,
acting as general secretary, and internet posting of the articles
Charge Subversion of the state power
Date of sentence 2003-05-28, 2003-11-10 (appeal)
Organ of sentence Beijing Intermediate People’s Court, Beijing High People’s Court (appeal)
Sentence 10 Years imprisonment and 2 Years deprivation of political rights
Defender Lawyer ZHU Jiuhu
Place of jail Yanqing Prison, Postbox 3554-9, YanqinCounty, 102100 Beijing (since 2008)
Situation in jail Denied to get enough food, tortured, shut into isolation cell due to his persistent arguments against the conviction, hanger striking several times, and diagnosed with neuropathy in 2008
Date of release 2011-03-12
Family contact XU Liansheng (father), Tel: 0086-535-7074268, 0086-13793546459; Baimei Street 1-7, Zhifu District, Yantai City, Shandong Province.
Donation to XU Liansheng by the West Union
Case adopted by ICPC, Ghanaian PEN
Current Status Release on expiry of the sentence on 2011-03-12
(Case therefore closed) ICPC keeping contact
References http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=7014
http://www.ifex.org/china/2008/02/27/serious_health_concerns_for_long/
http://www.zhongguohun.com/chison/yujie/035.html (Chinese)
http://www.alliance.org.hk/prison/?lang=c&viewid=3090 (Chinese)
http://www.cicus.org/info/artshow.asp?ID=63909 (Chinese)