Sex Male
Birth date 1970-02-05
Birth place Sui County, Hubei Province
Resident place Suizhou City, Hubei Province
Education Colleage
Profession Internet writer and former teacher, founder and chief editor of Minsheng Guancha (Civil Rights and Livelihood Watch) website (ICPC member)
Date of arrest 2016-11-17 (detained), 2016-12-23 (arrested)
Organ of arrest Public Security Bureau of Suizhou City, Hubei Province
Cause of arrest the counts in the indictment include: writing/publishing “Non-violence” series, six annual reports on “China’s Stability Maintenance and Human rights” and “Mental Illness and Human Rights”, review articles on sensitive incidents, publishing comic pictures and posters, being interviewed by overseas media; founding Minsheng Guancha website, cooperating with overseas institutions and organizations, and applying for grants from overseas sources, thus “using rumors and slanders as incitements to overthrow the state power and socialist system”
Charge Inciting subversion of the state power
Date of sentence 2018-08-07 (hearing), 2019-01-29 (verdict), 2019-07-12 (appeal)
Organ of sentence Inermediate People’s Court of Suizhou City, High People’s Court of Hunbei Province (appeal), China
Sentence Five years im prisonment, 3 years deprivation of political rights, and private property confiscation of 1,010,000 CNY
Defender Lawyers ZHANG Keke (quit under pressure), WEN Donghai (replaced), WU Kuiming
Place of jail No. 1 Detention Center of Suizhou City, Hubei Province
Situation in jail Health worsening
Date of release 2021-11-17 (?)
Family contact Yu Jinping (wife)
Donation to
Case adopted by ICPC
Status Main case
Reference
https://www.chinesepen.org/english/chinese-activist-liu-feiyue-given-five-years-jail-for-inciting-subversion
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/liufeiyue-trial-12132017142438.html
https://www.cpj.org/2016/11/editor-of-human-rights-news-website-detained-in-ch.php
https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/fr/case/case-history-liu-feiyue
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-human-rights-activist-liu-feiyue-detained-subversion-a7438361.html
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/rights-website-11252016113604.html
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2049210/china-detains-editor-human-rights-website-subversion