Pen name Wang Zang, Xiao Wangzi, Yuan Zheng
Sex Male
Birth date 1985-09-26
Birth place Chuxiong City, Yunnan Province
Resident place Tongzhou District, Beijing
Education University
Profession Poet and artist
Date of arrest 2014-10-02 (detained), 2014-11-06 (arrested); 2020-05-30 (detained, 2nd), 2020-07-03 (arrested)
Organ of arrest Public Security Bureau of Beijing City (1st), Public Security Bureau of Chuxiong City, Yunan Province (2nd)
Cause of arrest Publishing online a photo of him holding up an umbrella on social media and organizing a poetry reading event to show his solidarity with the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong; unknown
Charge Suspicion of creating disturbances (1st), Suspicion of inciting subversion of State power (2nd)
Date of sentence not
Organ of sentence no
Sentence no
Defender Lawyers SUI Muqing and ZHANG Weiyu, Tel. +86-13864359581 (1st), unknown
Place of jail No. 1 Detention Center of Beijing City, Detention Center of Tongzhou District, Beijing City (after arrest, 1st); Detention Center of Chuxiong City, Yunan Province (2nd)
Situation in jail Tortured (1st); unknown (2nd)
Date of release 2015-07-09 (not for prosecution, 1st), not yet (2nd)
Family contact
Donation to
Case adopted by ICPC
Current Status Main case
His wife Wang Liqin has been also arrested for her calling on his arrest with the same charge on 2020-07-24.
Reference
https://www.theepochtimes.com/chinese-poet-and-wife-arrested-for-inciting-subversion_3375496.html
https://www.nchrd.org/2020/06/poet-wang-zang-detained-by-yunnan-police-for-inciting-subversion/
http://blog.boxun.com/hero/200907/xwziwj/4_1.shtml
http://www.epochtimes.com/gb/14/10/5/n4264830.htm
http://boxun.com/news/gb/china/2014/10/201410042050.shtml
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/gangtai/ql2-10022014102536.html
http://wqw2010.blogspot.co.nz/2014/10/blog-post_16.html
http://www.chinesepen.org/blog/archives/17087