25. WU Shishen
Pen name
Sex Male
Birth date 1962
Birth place Zhenhai County, Zhejiang Province
Resident place BeijingCity
Education University
Profession Editor for the domestic news department of Xinhua news agency
(Honorary member of Norwegian, Danish and German PEN centers)
Date of arrest 1992-11-06
Organ of arrest National Security Bureau of Beijing City
Cause of arrest Giving Hong Kong reporter an advance copy of General Secretary Jiang Zemin’s
speech to 14th Congress of CCP
Charge Illegally providing with state secrets overseas
Date of sentence 1993-08-30, 1993-10-05 (appeal)
Organ of sentence Beijing Intermediate People’s Court, Beijing High People’s Court (appeal)
Sentence life imprisonment and deprivation of political rights (reduced to 12 Years and 8 months)
Defender unknown
Place of jail Beijing No 2 Prison, Postbox: 2357, Chaoyang District, 100023 Beijing
Situation in jail OK
Date of release 2005-07-05
Family contact unknown
Donation to
Case adopted by Norwegian, Danish and German PEN centers
Current Status Release on 2005-07 due to the reduction of sentence
(Case therefore closed)
References http://www.amnesty.org/ailib/intcam/china/china96/secret/secret5.htm
http://law.hotoa.com.cn/lawv2/5/192-1/D4EA7A72-F327-4765-9A93-5555CA84
A6C8.html (Chinese)
http://www.chinalawedu.com/news/2004_4%5C10%5C1656313513.htm
(Chinese)