174. DONG RUBIN (released)

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Dong Rubin

Pen name                 Bian Min (means “frontiersman”)

Sex                               Male

Birth date                1962-12-27

Birth place               Qujin, Yunnan Province

Resident place         Kunming City, Yunnan Province

Education                University graduate

Profession                Writer and legal representative of company (ICPC honorary member)

Date of arrest          2013-09-10 (detained), 2013-10-16 (arrested),

Organ of arrest       Public Security Bureau of Wuhua District, Kunming City, Yunnan Province

Cause of arrest       Accused of online publishing false information for profit and disrupting market order

Charge                        Illegal business and creating disturbances

Date of sentence     2014-06-30 (hearing), 2014-07-23 (verdict), 2014-12-04 (appeal)

Organ of sentence   People’s Court of Wuhua District, Kunming City; Intermidiate People’s Court of Kunming City, Yunnan Province

Sentence                       6 years and 6 months imprisonment and 350,000 CNY fine

Defender                        Lawyer WANG Fu and YANG Mingkua

Place of jail                    Detention Center of Wuhua District, Kunming City, Yunnan Province

Situation in jail             Tortured in jail

Date of release                2020-03-09

Family contact

Donation to

Case adopted by             ICPC

Current Status                released due to the expiry of his sentence

 Reference
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/china-rumour-mongering-lands-dong-rubin-jail-six-years-1457965 
https://cpj.org/2014/07/critical-chinese-blogger-given-six-year-prison-ter.php 
http://en.rsf.org/china-arrests-censorship-and-propaganda-26-07-2014,46710.html
https://cpj.org/data/people/dong-rubin/index.php
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1308905/chinese-blogger-dong-rubin-who-predicted-his-arrest-after-criticising
https://www.nchrd.org/2014/08/prisoner-of-conscience-dong-rubin/