34. YANG Jianli
Pen name
Sex Male
Birth date 1963-07-15
Birth place Cangshan County, Shandongi Province
Resident place Boston, USA (Permanent resident in USA)
Education M.A in Statistics at Beijing Normal University, 1985; Ph.D in Mathematics at
University of California, Berkeley, 1991; Ph.D. in Political Economy at Harvard
Profession Foundation for China in 21st Century, Editor-in-Chief of China in the 21st
Century series, research fellow at Harvard Kennedy School of Government
(ICPC member since May 2011)
Date of arrest 2002-04-26 (detained) / 2002-06-21 (arrested)
Organ of arrest National Security Bureau of Beijing City
Cause of arrest Entering China with a passport of his friend as he could not renew his Chinese
passport and observing the workers movements
Charge Espionage and crossing the national border illegally
Date of sentence 2004-05-13
Organ of sentence Beijing Intermediate People’s Court
Sentence 5 Years imprisonment and 1 Years deprivation of political rights
Defender Lawyer MO Shaoping
Place of jail Tianhe Prison of Beijing, Post Box 1290-1, Daxing District, Beijing 102609
Situation in jail 2004-05-18, refusing to appear in a formal statement
Date of release 2007-04-25
Family contact Christina FU (wife), Tel: 001-617-7359133, 001-617-3884059, e-mail:
Donation to
Case adopted by Jianli Support Group, ICPC
Current Status Release on expiry of the sentence on 2007-04-25
(Therefore the case closed) joined ICPC
References http://www.yangjianli.com/
http://www.yangjianli.com/index_gb.htm (Chinese)
http://www.ourtw.com/News_Show2.asp?NewsID=411 (Chinese)