66. LI Changqing
Pen name
Sex Male
Birth date 1965-02-05
Birth place Fujian Province
Resident place Fuzhou City, Fujian Province
Education B.A. in Chinese Literature, East China Normal University
Profession Reporter, deputy news director of Fuzhou Daily (Honorary member of ICPC)
Date of arrest 2004-12-16 (detained), 2005-01-20(residential surveillance), 2005-02-03 (arrested)
Organ of arrest Public Security Bureau of Fuzhou City, Fujian Province
Cause of arrest writing in support of whistleblower Huang Jingao (a Communist Party official in Fujian province who wrote an open letter to the state-run People’s Daily in 2004 denouncing corruption among local officials but in November 2005 he was convicted of accepting bribes and sentenced to life in prison) and posting on Boxun News Network an anonymous report on an outbreak of dengue fever, a viral, mosquito-borne disease, in Fuzhou City
Charge Deliberately fabricating and spreading false and alarmist information
Date of sentence 2006-01-25/2006-03-31 (appeal)
Organ of sentence People’s Court of Gulou District, Intermediate People’s Court Fuzhou City, Fu Jian Province
Sentence 3 Years imprisonment
Defender Lawyers MO Shaoping
Place of jail Yong’an Prison, Yong’an City, Fujian Province
Situation in jail very weak with stomach inflammation
Date of release 2008-02-02
Family contact BAO Dingling (wife), Tel: 0086-591-87644497
Donation to
Case adopted by ICPC
Current Status Release on expiry of the sentence on 2008-02-02
(Case therefore closed) keeping contact
References http://www.cpj.org/news/2006/asia/china19jan06na_2.html
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=16221
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/19/AR2006011901810.html
http://www.peacehall.com/news/gb/china/2006/06/200606211515.shtml (in Chinese)