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/