Pen name
Sex Male
Birth date 1967-11-11
Birth place Beijing
Resident place 24-6-107 Bajiao North Rord, Shijingshan District, Beijing
Education Graduated from Beijing University
Profession Human rights lawyer and freelancer
Date of arrest 2018-01-19 (detained), 2018-01-27 (residential surveillance), 2018-04-19 (arrested)
Organ of arrest Shijingshan Branch of Public Security Bureau of Beijing City (detention), Tongshan Branch of Public Security Bureau of Xuzhou City (residential surveillance), Public Security Bureau of Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province (arrest)
Cause of arrest Online commenting on politically sensitive topics, and posting a pro-democratic appeal to amend China’s Constitution, two days before his detention.
Charge Suspicion of disrupting public service (detemtion and arrest), and of inciting subversion of state power (residential surveillance and arrest)
Date of sentence not yet
Organ of sentence not yet
Sentence not yet
Defender Lawyers CHANG Boyang and XIE Yang (rejected), ZHAO Qiang and YUE Song (assigned by the authorities)
Place of jail Detention Center of Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province (since 2018-04-19)
Situation in jail unknown
Date of release no
Family contact XU Yan (wife), mobile: +86-13718826079
Donation to
Case adopted by ICPC
Current Status Main case
References
https://www.nchrd.org/2018/09/yu-wensheng/
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/yuwensheng-duress-04232018130813.html
https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/case/yu-wensheng-detained-and-charged-disrupting-public-service
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/19/outspoken-chinese-human-rights-lawyer-yu-wensheng-arrested
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/19/world/asia/china-yu-wensheng-rights-lawyer.html