Pen name Liang Buzheng
Sex Male
Birth date 1975-03-20
Birth place
Resident place Miyun County, Beijing
Education University
Profession Lawyer at Beijing Kaitai Law Firm (ICPC honorary member)
Date of arrest 2015-7-12 (assigned residence residential surveillance), 2016-01-08 (arrest)
Organ of arrest Public Security Bureau of Tianjin City
Cause of arrest unknown
Charge Suspicion of inciting subversion of the state power
Date of sentence no
Organ of sentence no
Sentence no
Defender Lawyers LI Boguang, LIANG Xiaojun, CHEN Jiangang (all denied by the police), CHEN Wenhai (assigned by the police but suited by the suspect’s wife)
Place of jail 2nd Detention Center of Tianjin City
Situation in jail unknown
Date of release 2017-01-05 (on bail, return home on 21017-01-18)
Family contact Yuan Shanshan, tel: +86-15811304951
Donation to
Case adopted by ICPC
Current Status released on bail on 2017-01-05 but kept under residential surveillance in an unknown location until 2017-01-18
Reference
http://www.chinesepen.org/english/detained-chinese-rights-lawyer-at-risk-of-torture-amnesty-international
http://www.chinesepen.org/blog/archives/44837
http://www.chrlawyers.hk/en/content/xie-yanyi-0
https://www.nchrd.org/2016/09/xie-yanyi/
https://chinachange.org/tag/xie-yanyi/
https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/profile/xie-yanyi
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-36984186