22. LIU HAOFENG (released)

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22.   LIU Haofeng

Pen name

Sex                          Male

Birth date                1975-12-26

Birth place              Xinshao County, Hunan Province

Resident place         ShanghaiCity

Education

Profession               Freelance journalist, and former editor and reporter for several publications

Date of arrest          2001-03-31 (secretly arrested)

Organ of arrest       Public Security Bureau of Shanghai City

Cause of arrest       Organising the China Democracy Party Joint Headquarters, Second Front, and

publishing an essay on the internet focusing on the current situation of China’s

Charge                    Endangering national security

Date of sentence     2001-05-16

Organ of sentence   Reeducation Through Labor Management Committee of Shanghai City

Sentence                  3 Years of Re-education Through Labour (RTL)

Defender                 None

Place of jail             Hunan No. 1 RTL center, Changsha City, Hunan Province

Situation in jail        unknown

Date of release        2003-01-15(on medical parole)

Family contact        unknown

Donation to

Case adopted by

Current Status         RTL terminated on 2004-03-31

(Case therefore closed) Joined ICPC

References              http://www.cpj.org/news/2001/China31aug01na.html

http://www.alliance.org.hk/prison/?lang=c&viewid=3099 (Chinese)

http://www.yangjianli.com/digest/zhangsanyiyan20031112e.htm (Chinese)