Sex Male
Birth date 1971-05-19
Birth place Luoshan County, Henan Province
Resident place Zhengzhou City, Henan Province
Education University graduate
Profession Freelance writer, legal activist, former lawyer (licence revoked for his human rights activism in 2009) (ICPC honorary member)
Date of arrest 2016-11-22 (administrative detention for 9 days), 2016-12-01 (residential surveillance in a designated location), 2017-05-31 (arrested)
Organ of arrest Changsha Railway Public Security Department of Guangzhou Railway Bureau (administrative detention), Direct Branch of Public Security Bureau of Changsha City (residential surveillance), Public Security Bureau of Changsha City (arrest), Hunan Province
Cause of arrest alleged as illegally holding a number of state secrets documents, having connections with overseas institutions, organizations and individuals for illegally supplying state secrets, accepting long-term foreign funds, undertaking some tasks as a citizen agent, intervening in some sensitive cases, fabricating rumors on the Internet, inciting the petitioners and client family members against state organs, disturbing social order, and thus resulting in adverse social impacts.
Charge Inciting subversion of state power
Date of sentence 2017-08-22 (hearing), 2017-11-21 (verdict)
Organ of sentence Intermediate People’s Court of Changsha City, Hunan Province
Sentence two years imprisonment, three years deprivation of political rights
Defender Lawyers QIN Chenshou, CHEN Jinxue and ZHANG Lei(all dismissed), lawers assigned by the court
Place of jail No. 1 Detention Center of Changsha City (since 31 May 2017), No 2 Prison of Hunan Province (since 28 April 2018)
Situation in jail tortured and forced to confess
Date of release 2019-02-28
Family contact JIN Bianling (wife), JIANG Lianghou (father)
Donation to
Case adopted by ICPC
Current Status Released on 2019-02-28 but still hold under residential surveillance in a designated location
References
https://www.chinesepen.org/english/chinese-rights-lawyer-jiang-tianyong-allowed-home-visit-still-not-free
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-47406389
https://www.nchrd.org/2017/02/jiang-tianyong/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/21/chinese-human-rights-lawyer-jiang-tianyong-jailed
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/another-chinese-human-rights-lawyer-is-going-to-jail/2017/11/20/5af09cbc-ce5d-11e7-8447-3d80b84bebad_story.html
http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-china-rights-idUKKBN14C0TQ
http://www.chinesepen.org/english/china-to-try-one-rights-lawyer-as-european-diplomats-visit-family-of-another
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/16/world/asia/jiang-tianyong-china.html
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/lawyer-arrest-12162016142651.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiang_Tianyong