Pen name Guests Zhen
Sex Male
Birth date 1985-12-12
Birth place Jiangmen City, Guangdong Provinve
Resident place Zhuhai City, Guangdong Provinve
Education Graduated from Technical school
Profession Human rights lactivist, executive editor of atgfw.org
Date of arrest 2017-09-01 (detained), 2017-09-29 (residential surveillance), 2018-03-30 (arrested)
Organ of arrest Public Security Bureau of Zhuhai City, Guangdong Province
Cause of arrest helping to lead advocacy campaigns for a Hong Kong-based online platform Human Rights Campaign in China, publishing information about rights violations in China, and serving as executive director for ATGFW.org to provide information and technical assistance for circumventing the government’s Great Firewall, the massive cyber-policing apparatus that blocks Internet access within China.
Charge Inciting subversion of state power
Date of sentence 2018-08-10 (hearing), 2018-12-28 (verdict)
Organ of sentence Intermediate People’s Court of Zhuhai City, Guangdong Province
Sentence Two years imprisonment
Defender Lawyers REN Quanniu and WEN Yu
Place of jail No. 1 Detention Center of Zhuhai City, Guangdong Province
Situation in jail OK
Date of release 2019-11-08
Family contact
Donation to
Case adopted by ICPC
Current Status Released on 2019-11-08 due to expiry of sentence.
References
https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/asa17/9641/2019/en/
https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/asa17/9049/2018/en/
https://rsf.org/en/news/china-journalist-zhen-jianghua-detained-without-trial-one-year
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/torture-fears-for-anticensorship-campaigner-arrested-for-subversion-03302018112708.html
https://chinachange.org/2018/01/05/zhen-jianghua-the-perilous-life-of-a-young-activist-in-china/
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-congress-rights-insight/for-some-chinese-dissidents-party-congress-means-a-paid-vacation-idUSKBN1CR01T