20. YU Dongyue
Pen name
Sex Male
Birth date 1967-12-04
Birth place Liuyang City, Hunan Province
Resident place Liuyang City, Hunan Province
Education Graduated from Department of Art at Xiangtan Teachers College, Hunan
Province
Profession Editor of Liuyang Daily
(Honorary Member of ICPC, Melbourne, Canadian, Czech and German PEN centers)
Date of arrest 1989-05-23
Organ of arrest Public Security Bureau of Beijing City
Cause of arrest Staining the portrait of Mao Zedong on Tian An Men during 1989 student
protests in Beijing and sent by student pickets to police station
Charge Counter-revolutionary sabotage and counter-revolutionary propaganda
Date of sentence 1989-08
Organ of sentence Beijing Intermediate People’s Court
Sentence 18 Years imprisonment (reduced from 20 Years)
Defender Lawyer GAO
Place of jail Chishan Prison, Postbox: 101, 413104 Yuanjiang City, Hunan Province
Situation in jail Tortured into extreme psychological disturbance, or mental illness
Date of release 2006-02-22 (on parole)
Family contact WU Pinghua (mather), Tel:0086-731-3540284
YU Xiyue (brother), Tel: 0086-13787791608(m)
Donation to Bank of China, Chigang Sub-branch, Dongtang Office,
SWIFT Code: BKCHCNBJ970
Changsha City, Hunan Province, P.R. China
Account: 4687284-0188-026395-3
YU Xiyue
Case adopted by ICPC, Melbourne, Canadian, Czech and German PEN centers
Current Status Released on parole on 2006-02-22 (Case therefore closed)
ICPC keeping contact and seeking the donation to the family
References http://www.pencanada.ca/committ/HM/YuDongYue.htm
http://www.alliance.org.hk/prison/?lang=c&viewid=746 (Chinese)
http://www.peacehall.com/news/gb/pubvp/2003/06/200306040601.shtml
(Chinese)