Pen name
Sex Male
Birth date 1961-10-22
Birth place Gongzhuling City, Jilin Province
Resident place Beijing City
Education BE at Jilin University of Technology
Profession Investor, research fellow of the NGO Open Constitution Initiative, poet (ICPC honorary member)
Date of arrest 2013-09-13 (detained), 2013-10-20 (arrested)
Organ of arrest Public Security Bureau of Beijing City
Cause of arrest Participating activities of the Open Constitution Initiative and the New Citizens’ Movement in China
Charge Suspicion of assembling a crowd to disrupt order in public places
Date of sentence no
Organ of sentence no
Sentence no
Defender Lawyer CHEN Youxi
Place of jail No. 3 Detention Center of Beijing City
Situation in jail Fatigued and intensive interrogation, interrogated 90 times in two months
Date of release 2014-01-23 (on bail)
Family contact
Donation to
Case adopted by ICPC
Current Status Released on bail since 2014-01-23 pending trial for one year (Therefore the case closed)
Reference
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/chinese-citizens-rights-activist-wang-gongquan-is-formally-arrested/2013/10/21/888909ca-3a73-11e3-b0e7-716179a2c2c7_story.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/22/world/asia/china-arrests-prominent-businessman-who-backed-rights-causes.html
http://www.scmp.com/news/china-insider/article/1336472/liberal-activist-wang-gongquan-formally-arrested