32. HE Depu
Pen name
Sex Male
Birth date 1956-10-28
Birth place Beijing City
Resident place Beijing City
Education Secondary school
Profession Freelance writer; formal worker at Beijing Academy of Social Science
(Honorary member of ICPC and Swiss French PEN centers,
ICPC member since October 2011)
Date of arrest 2002-11-14 (residential surveillance), 2003-01-25 (detained) / 2003-01-31 (arrested)
Organ of arrest Public Security Bureau of Beijing City
Cause of arrest Leading figure of Chinese Democracy Party; Internet writing and publishing
dissident articles (28);Writing and publishing on internet an open letter for
Charge Inciting subversion of the state power
Date of sentence 2003-11-06, 2003-12- 20(appeal)
Organ of sentence Beijing Intermediate People’s Court, Beijing High People’s Court (appeal)
Sentence 8 Years imprisonment and 2 Years deprivation of political rights
Defender Lawyers YAN Ruyu and FU Kexin
Place of jail Beijing No 2 Prison, Postbox: 2357-13, Chaoyang District, 100121 Beijing (since 2010)
Situation in jail Health worsening and seriously tortured
Date of release 2011-01-24
Family contact JIA Jianying (wife), Tel: 0086-10-68355230, 0086-13161769766(m),
Hospital Library, Changchun Street 45, Xuanwu District, Beijing
Donation to Above address by post
Case adopted by ICPC, Swiss French PEN
Current Status Release on expiry of the sentence on 2011-01-24
(Therefore the case closed) joined ICPC
References http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=8475
http://www.ifex.org/china/2011/02/11/depu_released/
http://zh.wikipedia.org/zh/%E4%BD%95%E5%BE%B7%E6%99%AE (Chinese)
http://www.alliance.org.hk/prison/?lang=c&viewid=2698 (Chinese)
http://www.asiademo.org/gb/author/taohaidong.htm (Chinese)