67. LI YUANLONG (released)

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67.  LI Yuanlong

Pen name                Night Wolf

Sex                          Male

Birth date                1960-08-24

Birth place              Bijie City, Guizhou Province

Resident place         Bijie City, Guizhou Province

Education               Graduated from Guizhou Broadcasting and Television University (1994)

Profession              Editor and reporter of Bijie Zhoumo (Bijie Weekends) of the Bijie Newspaper Office (ICPC member since 2007)

Date of arrest          2005-09-09 (detained), 2005-09-29 (arrested)

Organ of arrest       National Security Bureau of Guizhou Province

Cause of arrest       Internet writing and publishing 4 articles criticising the social issues

Charge                    Inciting subversion of the state power

Date of sentence     2006-07-13, 2006-12-13 (appeal)

Organ of sentence   Intermediate People’s Court of Bijie Prefecture, High People’s Court of Guizhou Province

Sentence                  2 Years imprisonment and 2 Years deprivation of political rights

Defender                 Lawyers CHEN Shenghua and LI Jianqiang

Place of jail             Bijie Detention Center, Bijie City, Guizhou Province

Situation in jail        OK

Date of release        2007-09-14

Family contact        YANG Xiumin (wife), Tel:0086-13368676023

Donation to

Case adopted by     ICPC

Current Status         Release on expiry of the sentence on 2007-09-14

(Therefore the case closed) Joined ICPC

National Security Bureau of Guizhou Province submitted the case to the Provincial People’s Procuratorate on Nov. 14, 2005. On Nov. 24, the Procuratorate assigned its Bijie Branch to investigate the case for prosecution, but, on Dec 20, the Branch sent it back to the National Security Bureau for complementary inspection. After it had got the case again on Jan. 12, 2006, the Procuratorate Branch submitted its prosecution statement to the Middle People’s Court of Bijie Prefecture on Feb. 9, 2006.

 References              http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=18277

http://english.epochtimes.com/news/6-2-1/37588.html

http://www.peacehall.com/news/gb/china/2006/05/200605311334.shtml (in Chinese)

http://www.ncn.org/asp/zwginfo/da.asp?ID=69043&ad=7/14/2006 (in Chinese)

http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/shenrubaodao/2006/01/25/xinwen/ (in Chinese)