Name Zhang Guiqi
Penname Lu Yang
Sex Male
Birth date 1971-01-04
Birth place Xin County, Shandong Province
Resident place Liaocheng, Shangdong Province
Education Graduate from the Technician College of Shandong Province
Profession Poet, founder of Chinese Poets Great Forum, former teacher at the Liaocheng School of Foreign Languages
Date of arrest 2020-05-01 (taken away by the police), 2020-05-13 (criminal detention), 2020-06-19 (arrest)
Organ of arrest Public Security Bureau of Liaocheng City, Shandong Province
Cause of arrest online dissident posts, particularly related to a video of him at home displaying two slogans, demanding “Xi Jinping to step down” and that “CCP’s regime of dictatorship must end”, which had been uploaded at a Wechat group an hour or so before his being taken away by the police.
Charge Inciting subversion of the state power
Date of sentence 2020-09-09 (secret hearing)，2022-07-26 (verdict)
Organ of sentence Intermediate People’s Court of Liaocheng City, Shandong Province
Sentence Six-year impeisonment and three-year deprivation of political rights
Defender Himself and his lawyers appointed by the goverment (one authorized by his family has been rejected by the police)
Place of jail Detention Center of Liaocheng City (detention), (since arrest) Detention Center of Chiping District, Liaocheng City, Shandong Province
Situation in jail Unknown
Date of release 2026-05-12 (?)
Family contact ZHANG Yinghua (wife)
Donation to
Case adopted by ICPC
Current Status Main case
References
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3951952
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/poet-detained-05142020134933.html
https://www.refworld.org/docid/58f9ca4c4.html
https://books.google.se/books?id=sF7UDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA356&lpg=PA356&dq=lu+yang,+liu+xiaobo&source=bl&ots=OZWqzBpf1S&sig=ACfU3U11i2GUfugu3aPVeZV5esvmfcWTFw&hl=sv&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi2sYH9rrPpAhUvxKYKHTYGBakQ6AEwCHoECA0QAQ#v=onepage&q=lu%20yang%2C%20liu%20xiaobo&f=false