Sex Male
Birth date 1964-04-09
Birth place Hunan Province
Resident place Nansha District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province
Education Graduated from Zhuzhou Institute of Technology, 1985
Profession Architect, freelance writer and singer-songwriter (ICPC member)
Date of arrest 2017-09-26 (detained), 2017-11-02 (arrested)
Organ of arrest Nansha District Branch of Public Security Bureau of Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province
Cause of arrest Internet writing and publishing dissident articles, poems and songs about social injustices, such as forced eviction, the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, and, most recently, the death of Liu Xiaobo, etc.
Charge Picking quarrels and provoking trouble.
Date of sentence 2018-07-27 (hearing),2018-12-07 (verdict), 2019-05-14 (appeal)
Organ of sentence People’s Court of Nansha District, Intermediate People’s Court of Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province (appeal)
Sentence Three years imprisonment
Defender Lawyers LIN Qilei and LIU Hao
Place of jail Detention Center of Nansha District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province
Situation in jail Hospitalised for breast hyperplasia but application for medical parole rejected
Date of release 2020-09-25 (?)
Family contact WANG Zilan (wife)
Donation to
Case adopted by ICPC
Current Status Main case
References
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/china-jails-guangdong-musician-12072018114044.html
http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Xu-Lin-on-trial-for-singing-for-Liu-Xiaobo-44539.html
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/musician-07272018115530.html
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=12562
https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/ASA17/7336/2017/en/