Sex Male
Birth date 1963-06-02
Birth place Bangbu City, Anhui Province
Resident place Bangbu City, Anhui Province
Education Graduated from Tsinghua University, 1985
Profession Freelance writer (ICPC member)
Date of arrest 2005-01-29 (administratively detained), 2005-02-13 (criminally detained), 2005-03-19 (arrested); 2009-12-03 (administratively detained) (2nd); 2013-07-19 (criminally detained), 2013-08-22 (arrested) (3rd)
Organ of arrest Public Security Bureau of Bangbu City(1st); People Police Station, Bangshan Branch of Public Security Bureau of Bangbu City, Anhui Province (2nd); Bangshan Branch of Public Security Bureau of Bangbu City, Anhui Province (3rd)
Cause of arrest Internet writing and publishing dissident articles (1st); accepting telephone interviews to overseas media (2nd); requiring her daughter to return to the elementary school in Hefei City and initiating netizens petition to support (3rd)
Charge Inciting subversion of the state power (1st); violating provisions of supervision and management (2nd); assembling a crowd to disrupt order in public places (3rd)
Date of sentence 2005-07-28, 2005-09-13 (appeal); 2009-12-03 (2nd); 2013-12-18(hearing) , 2014-09-05(verdict)(3rd)
Organ of sentence Intermediate People’s Court of Bangbu City, Anhui Province, High People’s Court of Anhui Province (appeal); People Police Station, Bangshan Branch of Public Security Bureau of Bangbu City, Anhui Province (2nd); People’s Court of Bangshan District, Bangbu City (3rd)
Sentence 5 Years imprisonment and 4 Years deprivation of political rights(1st); 10 days (2nd); 3 Years and 6 months imprisonment (3rd)
Defender Lawyer Tomas GUO (disbarred) and Lawyer MO Shaoping; Lawyer LIU Xiaoyuan(3rd)
Place of jail Tongling Prison, Tongling City, Anhui Province(1st); Administrative Detention Center of Bangbu City, Anhui Province (2nd); No. 1 Detention Center of Bangbu City, Anhui Province(3rd)
Situation in jail Some problems with his legs and teeth
Date of release 2009-08-12 (reduced by 6 months, 1st); 2009-12-13 (2nd); 2016-09-9 (reduced by 4 months and 9 days, 3rd)
Family contact Tel: 0086-552-4090427
Donation to
Case adopted by ICPC
Current Status released on 2016-09-9 due to a sentence reduction of 4 months and days
References
http://www.chinesepen.org/english/as-the-school-year-begins-chinese-dissidents-children-are-left-out-in-the-cold
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=12562
http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/67459
http://www.frontlinedefenders.org/node/27089