Pen name
Sex Male
Birth date 1953-05-23
Birth place Xianyang City, Shaanxi Province
Resident place Xi’an City, Shaanxi Province
Education University
Profession Freelance writer
Date of arrest 2010-09-19 (residential surveillance) , 2011-01-17 (arrested)
Organ of arrest Public Security Bureau of Beijing City
Cause of arrest Internet writing and publishing dissent articles
Charge Inciting subversion of state power
Date of sentence 2011-05-13, 2011-05-30 (appeal)
Organ of sentence Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People’s Court, Beijing High People’s Court (appeal)
Sentence 8 years imprisonment and 1 year deprivation of political rights
Defender Lawyers CHANG Weidong
Place of jail Xi’an Prison, Shaanxi Province
Situation in jail suffering from severe diabetes and that the prison hospital recommended that he be granted medical parole in 2016 to seek better treatment. Prison authorities reportedly rejected that recommendation on the grounds that Jin had not pleaded guilty to the charges. In September 2017, Jin reportedly experienced diabetic ketoacidosis – a potentially life-threatening complication caused by a shortage of insulin – and fell unconscious.
Date of release 2019-01-14
Family contact ZHANG Wei (mother)
Donation to
Case adopted by ICPC
Current Status Main Case
References
https://cpj.org/data/people/jin-andi/
http://www.refworld.org/docid/586cb8dc4.html
http://www.refworld.org/docid/549804f715.html
https://cpj.org/2012/06/chinese-writers-sentenced-for-essays-of-inciting-n.php
https://www.scmp.com/article/992123/trio-punished-criticising-jiang
https://plus.google.com/+WilliamFarris/posts/biYDciaE32D