Pen name Feng Zi
Sex Male
Birth date 1964-03-03
Birth place Santai County, Sichuan Province
Resident place No. 186-C-1-6-11, South Changhong Avenue, Fuling District, Mianyang City, Sichuan Province
Education Middle school
Profession Freelance writer and entrepreneur (ICPC honorary member)
Date of arrest 2011-09-08
Organ of arrest Public Security Bureau of Shehong County, Sichuan Province
Cause of arrest Involvement in giving financial help to other activists
Charge Contract fraud
Date of sentence 2012-07-25 (hearing), 2012-11-19 (verdict), 2013-01-11 (appeal), 2013-03-15 (appeal), 2013-06-25 (appeal verdict)
Organ of sentence People’s Court of Shehong County, Sichuan Province;
Suining Intermediate People’s Court, Sichuan Province(appeal)
Sentence 10 years imprisonment, and a fine of RMB300,000 (reduced after appeal)
Defender Lawyer ZHAO Jianwei and MA Xiaopeng
Place of jail Jintang Prison, Qingjiang Town, Jintang County, Sichuan Province 610409
Situation in jail Unknown
Date of release 2020-04-07
Family contact
Donation to
Case adopted by ICPC， German PEN
Current Status Released on 2020-04-07 due to the sentence reduction by one year and five months.
References
http://libifeng2012.wordpress.com/category/english/
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/nov/19/chinese-poet-li-bifeng-jailed http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/20/world/asia/chines-poet-li-bifeng-jailed-for-12-years.html?_r=0
http://www.pen-international.org/newsitems/china-dissident-poet-li-bifeng-sentenced-to-12-years/
http://www.worldwide-reading.com/archiv-en/04.06.2013-weltweite-lesung-fuer-li-bifeng