Pen name Koala
Sex Female
Birth date 1991-10-20
Birth place Henan Province
Resident place Beijing
Education B.A. in journalism at Jiangxi Normal University
Profession Assistant to lawyer Li Heping at Beijing Globe Law Firm, and blog writer (ICPC honorary member)
Date of arrest 2015-07-10 (detained) , 2016-01-08 (arrested)
Organ of arrest Public Security Bureau of Tianjin City
Cause of arrest unknown
Charge Suspicion of creating troubles (detention), and of subversion of the state power (assigned residence residential surveillance, and arrest)
Date of sentence no
Organ of sentence no
Sentence no
Defender Lawyers Ren Quanniu (rejected by police), Dong Yanan (f, appointed by the authorities)
Place of jail Detention Center of Hexi District, 1st Detention Center of Tianjin City (since 2016-01-08)， unknown (since 2016-06-24)
Situation in jail tortured, abused (possibly with sexual assault )
Date of release 2016-07-07 (on bail)
Family contact You Minglei (husband)
Donation to
Case adopted by ICPC
Current Status released on bail on 2016-07-07 pending trail for a year， but her whereabout still unknown.
Reference
http://www.chinesepen.org/english/tianjin-police-release-legal-assistant-zhao-wei-on-bail
http://www.chinesepen.org/english/chinese-legal-assistant-moved-amid-fears-of-abuse-in-detention
http://www.chinesepen.org/blog/archives/44837
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/25/zhao-wei-mothers-search-for-daughter-caught-china-human-rights
https://www.nchrd.org/2016/01/zhao-wei-%E8%B5%B5%E5%A8%81/
(others in Chinese)
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/renquanfazhi/xl2-05302016111614.html
http://www.chinesepen.org/blog/archives/44907
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/Xinwen/15-09232015161703.html
http://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2015/09/70.html
http://www.hrcchina.org/2015/09/blog-post_59.html
http://www.boxun.com/news/gb/china/2015/07/201507282137.shtml#.VgYYpBhh3Dc
http://www.minzhuzhongguo.org/ArtShow.aspx?AID=53734
http://www.canyu.org/n103171c6.aspx
http://www.canyu.org/n103170c6.aspx
http://blog.sina.com.cn/u/2818229470
http://weiboscope.jmsc.hku.hk/wsr/list.py?id=3722175774804229