23. LIU Jingsheng
Pen name
Sex Male
Birth date 1954-01-05
Birth place BeijingCity
Resident place BeijingCity
Education Middle school
Profession Factory worker, and former editor of Tansuo (Explorations) magazine
(Honorary Member of English, Swedish, New Zealand, German, American and NetherlandsPENCenters, ICPC member since 2007)
Date of arrest 1992-05-28
Organ of arrest Public Security Bureau of Beijing City
Cause of arrest Organising Liberal Democratic Party of China and Free Labour Union of China
with Hu Shigen and Kang Yuchun, and distributing pro-democracy leaflets
Charge Organising and leading counter-revolutionary group andcounter-revolutionary
Date of sentence 1994-12-16, 1995-06-14 (appeal)
Organ of sentence Beijing Intermediate People’s Court, Beijing High People’s Court (appeal)
Sentence 15 Years imprisonment and 4 Years deprivation of political rights (reduced by 2
Defender Unknown
Place of jail Beijing No.1 Prison, Postbox: 219, 102609 Daxing District, Beijing
Situation in jail OK
Date of release 2004-11-27
Family contact JIN Yanming (wife), Tel: 0086-10-62564454, 0086-13683324905(m)
ZhongguanVillage A21-203, Haidian District, Beijing
Donation to
Case adopted by ICPC, English, Swedish, New Zealand, German, American and NetherlandsPENCenters
Current Status Release on expiry of the sentence on 2004-11-27
(Case therefore closed) ICPC keeping contact
References http://www.pen.org/freedom/hm/liu.htm
http://www.alliance.org.hk/prison/?lang=c&viewid=1123 (Chinese)
http://www.asiatimes-chinese.com/2004/01/0102bj.htm (Chinese)