10. XU WEI (released)

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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)