3. DU DAOBIN
Pen name Huanghe Louzhu
Sex Male
Birth date 1964-12-12
Birth place Wuhan City, Hubei Province
Resident place Yingcheng City, Hubei Province
Education College graduate
Profession Clerk at Heath-care Reform Office of Yingcheng City (former clerk at Administrative Office of Medical Insurance of Yingcheng City before his arrest in 2003) and Internet writer (ICPC member, honorary member of SydneyPENCenter)
Date of arrest 2003-10-28 (detained) , 2003-11-10 (arrested) ; 2008-07-21 (re-arrest);
2013-06-03 (detained)(2nd )
Organ of arrest Public Security Bureau of Xiaogan City, Hubei Province;
Public Security Bureau of BeijingCity (2nd )
Cause of arrest Internet writing and publishing articles of criticizing the authorities;
Publishing sensitive words in Weibo about the assassination of the late Qing Dynasty(2nd )
Charge Inciting subversion of the state power; Suspicion of creating disturbances(2nd )
Date of sentence 2004-06-11, 2004-08-04 (appeal)
Organ of sentence Intermediate People’s Court of Xiaogan City, High People’s Court of Hubei Province
Sentence 3 Years imprisonment with 4 Years suspension and 2 Years deprivation of political rights.
Defender Lawyer MO Shaoping and LI Zongyi; Lawyer LIU Xiaoyuan (2nd )
Place of jail Home under restriction (before re-arrest)/ Hanxi Prison, Wuhan City, Hubei Province;
No. 1 DetentionCenter of Beijing (2nd )
Situation in jail OK
Date of release 2004-06-11(before re-arrest)/ 2010-12-08; 2013-07-02(released on bail) (2nd )
Family contact XIA Chunrong (wife), Tel: 86-13995883620
Donation to
Case adopted by ICPC, Sydney PEN
Current Status Released on expiry of the sentence on 2010-12-08; Released on bail on 2013-07-02
(Case therefore closed) keeping contact
References http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=10598
http://www.pen.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/2709/prmID/172 http://news.xinhuanet.com/legal/2004-06/11/content_1520894.htm (Chinese)
http://www.asiademo.org/gb/author/dudaobin.htm (Chinese)
http://www.boxun.com/my-cgi/post/display_all.cgi?cat=ddb (Chinese)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/chinese/simp/hi/newsid_7520000/newsid_7520400/7520480.stm