12. ZHAO CHANGQING (released)

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Zhao ChangqingSex                              Male

Birth date                1969-04-06

Birth place              ShanyangCounty, Hanzhong City, Shaanxi Province

Resident place         Xi’an City, Shaanxi Province

Education               B.Sc. in History at ShaanxiNormalUniversity, 1992

Profession               Former secondary school teacher, and freelance writer (ICPC member  since June 2010)

Date of arrest          2002-11-07 (house arrest), 2002-11-28 (detained) , 2002-12-27 (arrested); 2013-04-17 (detained) , 2013-05-24 (arrested, 2nd );
2016-05-31 (detained, 3rd)

Organ of arrest       Public Security Bureau of Xi’an City, Shaanxi Province;

Public Security Bureau of BeijingCity (2nd and 3rd)

 Cause of arrest       Writing and publishing on internet an open letter for political reform to 16th Congress of CCP; Participation in public activities calling for officials to disclose property (2nd )
Gathering for commemoration of June Fourth Event at a private residence (in the same case of LIANG Taiping and ZHANG Baocheng) (3rd)

Charge                    Inciting subversion of the state power; Illegal assembly(detained), Assembling a crowd to disrupt order in public places(arrested and sentenced, 2nd ), creating troubles (3rd)

Date of sentence       2003-08-04; 2014-01-23(hearing), 2014-04-10(hearing continuous), 2014-04-18(verdict), 2014-06-27 (appeal, 2nd ), not yet (3rd)

Organ of sentence  Xi’an Intermediate People’s Court, Shaanxi Province; People’s Court of Haidian District, Beijing City, No. 1 Intermediate People’s Court of Beijing City (2nd ); not yet (3rd)

Sentence                 5 Years imprisonment and 3 years deprivation of political rights; 2 years and 6 months(2nd ); not yet (3rd)

Defender                 Lawyer DOU Peixin; Lawyer LIN Qilei and ZHANG Xuezhong, Lawyer WANG Fu (2nd ),  Lawer LI Boguang (3rd)

Place of jail             Weinan Prison, Letian Street 118, 714000 Weinan City, Shaanxi Province; No. 3 Detention Center of BeijingCity (2nd ), Detention Center of Fengtai District, Beijing (3rd)

Situation in jail        Ever in prison hospital due to white plague severer, OK  (2nd), unknown (3rd)

Date of release        2007-11-27; 2015-10-16(2nd ), 2016-07-07 (on bail, 3rd)

Family contact

 Donation to            

Case adopted by     ICPC

Current Status         released on bail on 2016-07-07 pending trail for a year

References
http://www.chinesepen.org/english/at-least-three-activists-detained-in-beijing-over-tiananmen-massacre-commemoration
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhao_Changqing
http://www.frontlinedefenders.org/node/25763
http://www.chinesepen.org/english/News/NewsinICPC/201304/english_37887.html
http://chrdnet.com/2014/03/submission-to-un-on-zhao-changqing-february-20-2014/