Penname Niu Xing Jiang Hu
Sex Male
Birth date 1971-03-10
Birth place Fangcheng County, Henan Province
Resident place Urumqi, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Education Middle school
Profession Former worker at state-owned enterprises, telecommunications salesman, volunteer at a rights movement website, reporter at Boxun.com (ICPC honorary memmber)
Date of arrest 2015-06-26 (detained), 2015-07-31 (arrested)
Organ of arrest Public Security Bureau of Urumqi City, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Cause of arrest Exposing and criticizing the Chinese authorities through Twitter, Wechat, internet posts and interviews with foreign media, collecting and providing information for Boxun and other overseas websites, etc.
Charge Inciting subversion of the state power (prosecution, verdict), and providing intelligence for overseas agencies (verdict); suspicion of inciting ethnic hatred and ethnic discrimination (detention), of creating troubles (arrest)
Date of sentence 2016-01-15, 2016-11-23 (appeal)
Organ of sentence Intermediate People’s Court of Urumqi City, High People’s Court of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (appeal)
Sentence 19 years imprisonment (15 years for inciting subversion of the state power and 5 years for provideing intelligence for overseas agencies), 5 yesrs deprivation of political rights, and 120,000 CNY of personal property confiscation
Defender Lawyers Li Dunyong, LIU Zhengqing and CHEN Jinxue (appeal)
Place of jail Shaya Prison, Shaya 842208, Uyghur Autonomous Region, China;(before 2016-12-02) Detention Center of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (Kashi East Road 17-1, Xinshi District, Urumqi)
Situation in jail turtured many times
Date of release 2034-06-25 (?)
Family contact Li Aijie (wife), +86-13999861817
Donation to ZHANG Qingzhen (sister), China Construction Bank, Account No. 6210814540000965921
Case adopted by ICPC
Status Main Case
Reference
http://time.com/4189878/china-xinjiang-jail-zhang-haitao-uighur/
http://en.boxun.com/2016/01/25/zhang-haitao-sentenced-to-19-years-in-prison-labels-the-contributor-a-boxun-correspondent/
http://uhrp.org/news/wife-jailed-xinjiang-activist-left-baby-no-income
http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2016/01/activist-in-xinjiang-handed-19-years-in-jail/
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/jails-01212016105817.html
http://chinachange.org/2016/01/21/activist-in-xinjiang-sentenced-to-19-years-for-online-writings-and-rights-activities/