Pen name Nanbo
Sex Male
Birth date 1963-04-07
Birth place Neijiang City, Sichuan Province
Resident place Chengdu City, Sichuan Province
Education University
Profession Creator, director and webmaster of Tian Wang Human Rights Center with a website http://www.64tianwang.com (formally Search Service for Missing Persons with a website www.6-4tianwang.com)，HR activist (ICPC honorary member)
Date of arrest 2000-06-05 (detained) / 2000-07-12 (arrested); 2008-06-10 (detained, 2nd ) / 2008-07-18 (arrested); 2016-11-28 (detained, 3rd)/2016-12-16 (arrested)
Organ of arrest Public Security Bureau of Chengdu City (1st and 2nd); Public Security Bureau of Manyang City, Sichuan Province (3rd)
Cause of arrest Publishing online articles on his website on the June 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, written by dissidents living abroad; publishing reports concerning the governments’ wrongdoings.
Charge Inciting subversion of the state power; illegally holding state secrets (2nd); Intentionally leaking state secrets and llegally supplying state secrets overseas (3rd)
Date of sentence 2003-02-22, 2003-05-09 (appeal); 2009-11-23 (closed trial, 2nd), 2010-02-08 (appeal); 2019-07-29 (3rd)
Organ of sentence Intermediate People’s Court of Chengdu City, High People’s Court of Sichuan Province (appeal); Wuhou District People’s Court (2nd), Intermediate People’s Court of Chengdu City (appeal); Intermediate People’s Court of Manyang City, Sichuan Province (3rd)
Sentence 5 years imprisonment and 1 year deprivation of political rights; 3 years imprisonment (2nd); 12 years imprisonment and 4 years deprivation of political rights, and fine of 20,000 CNY (3rd)
Defender Lawyers GAO Xiaoping and FAN Jun; MO Shaoping and DING Xikui (2nd); LI Jinglin and SUI Muqing (3rd)
Place of jail Sichuan No. 1 Prison, Nanchong City, Sichuan Province; Chuandong Prison, Postbox 101, Dazhu County, Sichuan Province (2nd); Detention Center of Mianyang City, Sichuan Province (3rd)
Situation in jail Ever tortured and put in solitary confinement after visit from Reporters; weak health (2nd); serious sick but application for medical parole rejected several times (3rd)
Date of release 2005-06-04; 2011-06-09 (2nd); 2028-11-27 (3rd)
Family contact ZENG Li (wife), Tel: +86-13032883761; PU Wenqing (mother), Tel: +86-832-8991528
Donation to PU Wenqing, West Union
Case adopted by ICPC
Current Status Main case
References
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49150906
https://www.nchrd.org/2016/12/huang-qi/
https://chinachange.org/2018/10/15/85-year-old-mother-fights-for-the-release-of-her-son-renowned-human-rights-defender/
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/huangqi-beating-09072018132253.html
http://www.chinesepen.org/english/activist-writer-held-on-spying-subversion-charges-in-chinas-sichuan
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/tianwang-raid-11292016151040.html
https://cpj.org/2016/11/china-detains-publisher-of-human-rights-news-websi.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huang_Qi
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=62
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=27465
http://www.rsf.org/print.php3?id_article=28695