Pen name LIU Chen, WAN Xianming
Sex Male
Birth date 1968-08-25
Birth place Suining City, Sichun Province
Resident place Suining City, Sichun Province
Education Completed at China People’s University without a certificate due to political reason
Profession Freelance writer (Honorary member of ICPC)
Date of arrest 1999-07-07 (detained) / 1999-07-14 (arrested); 2010-06-28 (re-detained)/ 2010-07-05 (arrested)
Organ of arrest Public Security Bureau of Suining City, Sichun Province
Cause of arrest Internet writing and publishing dissident articles and open letters, founding Sichun Preparation Committee of Chinese Democracy Party
Charge Subversion of the state power; Inciting subversion of the state power (2nd)
Date of sentence 1999-08-06; 2011-03-25(2nd)
Organ of sentence Suining Intermediate People’s Court, Sichun Province
Sentence 13 years imprisonment and 3 years deprivation of political rights; 10 years imprisonment and 2 years and 4 months deprivation of political rights(2nd)
Defender Oneself; Lawyer MA Xiaopeng (2nd)
Place of jail Sichun No. 3 Prison, Dazhou County, Sichuan Province; Chuanzhong Prison, Nanchong City, Sichuan Province (2nd)
Situation in jail Pulmonary tuberculosis (cured later); OK
Date of release 2008-11-06 (reduced three times by 3 years and 8 months in total); 2020-06-27
Family contact CHEN Mingxian (wife), Tel: 0086-13778747500
Suining Middle School, Suining City, Sichun Province, 629000
Donation to
Case adopted by ICPC
Current Status Main case
References
https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/case/case-history-liu-xianbin
https://cpj.org/data/people/liu-xianbin/
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-12859050
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/wgad/12-2003.html
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=29202
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xianbin