186. XU XIAO (released)

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Penname                      

Sex                                Female

Birth date                 1954

Birth place               Shanghai

Resident place        Beijing

Education                Graduate of Beijing Normal University (1981)

Profession                 Writer, editor, publisher, and a guest lecturer of Liren College

Date of arrest           2014-11-26 (detained)

Organ of arrest        Public Security Bureau of Beijing City

Cause of arrest         blacklisted for banning publication, and editing and publishing the books by Ye Fu and Chen Zimin in the same blacklist.

Charge                           Suspicion of subverting the state power

  Date of sentence        no

Organ of sentence    no

Sentence                        no

Defender                       no

Place of jail                  No. 1 Detention Center of Beijing City, Police Hospital

Situation in jail        Her ankle was fractured in the early November before her detention, and so hospitalized soon.

Date of release         2014-12-23 (on bail)

 Family contact

 Donation to            

Case adopted by        ICPC, Swedish PEN, and Woman Writers Committee of PEN International

Current Status           Released on 2014-12-23 on bail pending trail for a year (Therefore the case is closed)

Reference
http://www.thebookseller.com/news/ipa-calls-china-release-xu-xiao
http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/03/few-clues-in-chinese-editors-detention/?_r=0
 http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BE%90%E6%99%93_(%E4%BD%9C%E5%AE%B6) (Chinese)
http://weibo.com/u/1047288737 (Chinese)
http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/realtime/china/20141129/53177894 (Chinese)
http://xgmyd.com/archives/10338 (Chinese)
http://www.yzzk.com/cfm/blogger3.cfm?id=1417665602929&author=%E9%84%92%E6%80%9D%E8%81%B0 (Chinese)
http://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/chinascholar-10122014060827.html (Chinese)
http://www.chinesepen.org/blog/archives/17648 (Chinese)