258. CHAI XIAOMING

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Sex                                Male

Birth date                 1976

Birth place                Shanghai

Resident place          Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province

Education                  Bachelor at University of Shanghai for Science and Technology (1998), Master of Business Administration at University of Plymouth, UK (2002)

Profession                  Editor of “Red Reference”, editor of Nanjing Lingsi Culture Communication Co., Ltd., and former lecturer of School of Marxism, Peking University

Date of arrest           2019-03-21 (residential surveillance at a designated location), 2019-07-31 (detained), 2019-09-x (arrested)

Organ of arrest        State Security Bureau of Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province

Cause of arrest        As a part-time editor of “Red Reference” publishing articles on the Trotskyist Marxist revolution, reporting and participating in the Jasic incident, a labour rights conflict at Pingshan District, Shenzhen City of Guangdong province in July 2018, and supporting workers’ rights protection, etc.

Charge                            Suspicion of subversion of State power (initial), Suspicion of inciting subversion of State power (tried)

Date of sentence       2020-08-14 (hearing)

Organ of sentence    Intermediate People’s Court of Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province

Sentence                        not yet

Defender                       unknown

Place of jail                 Detention Center of Nanjing National Security Bureau, Jiangsu Province

Situation in jail        unknown

Date of release           not yet

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 Donation to               

Case adopted by        ICPC

Current Status           Investigation

Reference
https://en.hkctu.org.hk/content/former-online-media-editor-arrested-%E2%80%9Cinciting-subversion-state-power%E2%80%9D
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/leftist-editor-03252019141644.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasic_incident
https://www.duihuahrjournal.org/2020/01/leftist-dissent-under-xi-young-leftists_21.html