48. SHI TAO (released)

Share on Google+

48.   SHI Tao

Pen name                Nice Ears

Sex                          Male

Birth date                1968-07-25

Birth place              Yanchi City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region

Resident place         Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province

Education               B. A. in Political Education at East China Normal University, 1991

Profession               Poet, freelance writer and journalist

(ICPC member, Honorary Member of Sydney, German, Canada, New Zealand, Swiss Italian, Swiss German, American, English, San Miguel, Scottish and USA PEN centers)

Date of arrest          2004-11-24 (detained) / 2004-12-14 (arrested)

Organ of arrest       National Security Bureau of Hunan Province

Cause of arrest       Internet posting an article that was alleged later to have revealed the state secrets

Charge                    Illegally providing state secrets overseas

Date of sentence     2005-04-30 / 2005-06-02 (appeal)

Organ of sentence   Changsha Intermediate People’s Court, High People’s Court (appeal), Hunan Province

Sentence                  10 Years imprisonment and 2 Years deprivation of political rights

Defender                 Lawyer Tomas GUO (disbarred), TONG Wenzhong, Mo Shaoping and DING Xikui(appeal)

Place of jail             Yinchuan Prison, Yinchuan City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region

Situation in jail       Better, except for stomach trouble uncured.

Date of release        2013-08-23 (reduced by 15 months)

Family contact        Brother SHI Hua, Tel: 0086-951-5053756; 0086-15825376678

Donation to            

Case adopted by     ICPC, Sydney, German, Canadian, English, USA and American, Swiss Italian PEN

Current Status         Released on 2013-08-23 due to the reduction of the sentence

(Case therefore closed) keeping contact

References              http://www.cpj.org/news/2005/China01july05na.html

http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20050501_1.htm

http://blog.boxun.com/hero/shitao/ (Chinese)

http://peacehall.com/news/gb/china/2005/06/200506300330.shtml (Chinese)