213. ZHAO WEI (released)

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Zhao WeiPen 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