Sex Male
Birth date 1972-02-04
Birth place Dongkou County, Shaoyang City, Hunan Province
Resident place Changsha City, Hunan Province
Education LL.B. at School of Law, Hunan University, Changsha
Profession Lawyer (ICPC honorary member)
Date of arrest 2015-7-12 (assigned residence residential surveillance), 2016-01-09 (arrest)
Organ of arrest Public Security Bureau of Changsha City, Hunan Province
Cause of arrest publishing Weibao posts and articles critisizing the governments, police and justice, etc.
Charge Suspicion of disrupting court order and inciting subversion of the state power
Date of sentence 2017-05-08 (hearing), 2017-12-26 (verdict)
Organ of sentence no
Sentence exemption from criminal penalty
Defender Lawyers ZHANG Zhongshi, LIU Jinbin (replaced), LIN Qilei (replaced) and LIU Zhengqing
Place of jail 2nd Detention Center of Changsha City, Hunan Province
Situation in jail Tortured
Date of release 2017-05-08 (on bail under residential surveillance), 017-12-26
Family contact CHEN Guiqiu (wife)
Donation to
Case adopted by ICPC
Current Status exemption from criminal penalty on 2017-12-26
Reference
http://www.chinesepen.org/english/chinese-rights-lawyer-tortured-in-detention-on-subversion-charges
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2016/12/02/news-chinese-lawyers-beatings-prison-tip-iceberg-wife-told/
https://www.nchrd.org/2016/09/xie-yang/
https://chinachange.org/2016/08/14/wife-and-relatives-issue-statement-over-torture-of-rights-lawyer-xie-yang-in-changsha/
https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/case/case-history-xie-yang
http://www.chrlawyers.hk/en/content/xie-yang
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/922339.shtml