Pen name CHEN YUNFEI
Sex Male
Birth date 1967-08-13
Birth place Da County, Suchuan Province
Resident place Wuhou District, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province
Education B.S. at China Agricultural University
Profession Agronomist and internet writer (ICPC honorary member)
Date of arrest 2015-03-25 (detained), 2015-04-30 (arrested)
Organ of arrest Public Security Bureau of Xinjin County, Sichuan Province
Cause of arrest Online reveal of the police’s bad performance, beating and threatening him; visiting the graves of June Fourth victems
Charge Creating troubles , suspicion of inciting subversion of the state power (detention and arrest )
Date of sentence 2016-12-26 (hearing started but suspended)，2017-03-31
Organ of sentence People’s Court of Wuhou District, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province
Sentence four years imprisonment
Defender Lawyers LIU Zhengqing and RAN Tong, Tel: +86-13084418778
Place of jail Detention Center of Xinjin County, Sichuan Province
Situation in jail OK
Date of release 2019-03-25
Family contact ZHANG Shirong (ex-wife)
Donation to
Case adopted by ICPC
Current Status Main case
In February 2016, the People’s Procuratorate of Chengdu City accepted the motion of his lawyer, and droped the charge of inciting subversion, to hand down his case to the People’s Procuratorate of Wuhou District, Chengdu City. On 26 December 2016, People’s Court of Wuhou District started the hearing of trial but then suspended it after the defendant dismissed his lawyers for protesting the court that had not permitted his friends to attend the hearing.
Reference
http://www.chinesepen.org/english/china-jails-tiananmen-protest-veteran-for-four-years-after-grave-visit
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/11510829/Chinese-police-seize-warm-hearted-Tiananmen-activist.html
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/sichuan-activist-detained-for-subversion-04072015112254.html
https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/node/28468
https://chrdnet.com/2015/10/submission-to-un-on-chen-yunfei-september-21-2015/