Pen name Super Vulgar Butcher, or Butcher (Tufu)
Sex Male
Birth date 1972-02-14
Birth place Xiashi Village, Jingyang Town, Fuqing City, Fujian Province
Resident place Fangshan District, Beijing City,
Education Seconary school graduate
Profession Internet writer, blogger, administrative assistant at Beijing Fengrui Law Firm , Beijing City (ICPC honorary member)
Date of arrest 2015-05-19 (administrative detention), 2015-05-27 (criminal detention), 2015-07-03 (arrested)
Organ of arrest Donghu Branch of Public Security Bureau of Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province (administrative detention), Siming Branch of Public Security Bureau of Xuamen City, Fujian Province (criminal detention, arrest), Public Security Bureau of Tianjin City (since end of 2015)
Cause of arrest Setting up two pull-up standees in front of the Jiangxi Province Higher People’s Court to protest the court’s denial of the defense’s access to files of the “Leping Wrongful Conviction Case”, and online presentation of his critical opinions toward the authorities.
Charge Disturbing order of the work unit, and publicly insulting people (administrative detention), Suspicion of creating disturbances (criminal detention), defamation (criminal detention-arrest), and inciting subversion of the state power (arrest), subversion of the state power (indictment and verdict)
Date of sentence 2017-12-26
Organ of sentence Second Intermediate People’s Court of Tianjin City
Sentence 8 years imprisonment and 5 years deprivation of political rights
Defender Lawyer LI Fangping and WANG Yu (f, detained late), YAN Xin and GE Yongxi
Place of jail Detention Center of Nanchang City (administrative detention), Detention Center of Yongtai County, Fujian Province, (criminal detention), 2nd Detention Center of Tianjin City (since end of 2015).
Situation in jail Tortured
Date of release 2023-05-26 (?)
Family contact Huang Chang (son), Tel: +86-180 6205 1821 (sister)
Donation to
Case adopted by ICPC
Current Status Main case
sought to appeal
Indicted on 2016-12-23.
Reference
https://www.voanews.com/a/vulgar-butcher-wu-gan-sought-to-appeal-sentence/4203069.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/25/world/asia/china-wu-gan-sentence.html
http://www.chinesepen.org/english/chinese-blogger-activist-super-vulgar-butcher-to-be-indicted-lawyer-not-given-access-report
http://www.chinesepen.org/english/yaqiu-wang-wu-gan-the-butcher#more-5435
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/wu-gan-moved-02022016121145.html
https://www.nchrd.org/2016/03/wu-gan/
http://ppdcecc.gov/QueryResultsDetail.aspx?PrisonerNum=8061
http://www.minzhuzhongguo.org/english/ArtShow.aspx?AID=73540