33. WANG Youcai
Pen name
Sex Male
Birth date 1966-06-29
Birth place Dunan County, Zhejiang Province
Resident place Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province
Education Graduate Study on physics at Beijing University
Profession Freelance writer and former engineer
Date of arrest 1998-07-10 (detained) / 1998-11-30 (arrested)
Organ of arrest Public Security Bureau of Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province
Cause of arrest Founding and leading Chinese Democracy Party; writing and e-mailing his
party’s documents overseas
Charge Subversion of the state power
Date of sentence 1998-12-21
Organ of sentence Hangzhou Intermediate People’s Court, Zhejiang Province
Sentence 11 Years imprisonment and 3 Years deprivation of political rights
Defender Lawyer WANG Wenjiang (not able to be at court)
Place of jail Zhejiang No. 1 Prison, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province
Situation in jail Seriously ill
Date of release 2004-03-04 (on medical parole)
Family contact HU Jiangxia (wife),
Donation to
Case adopted by Overseas branch of Chinese Democracy Party
Current Status Released to USA on medical parole on 2004-03-04,
(Therefore the case closed)
References http://www.wangyoucai.org/chronology.htm
http://www.alliance.org.hk/prison/?lang=c&viewid=608 (Chinese)
http://www.asiademo.org/gb/author/wangyoucai.htm (Chinese)
http://jhcdp.portland.co.uk/histry/histry/2000/10/08/20001008034716.htm
(Chinese)