7. YAN Jun
Pen name Bingde
Sex Male
Birth date 1973-05-02
Birth place Liuba County, Shaanxi Province
Resident place Xi’an City, Shaanxi Province
Education Graduated from Xi’an Teachers College, ShanxiProvince, 1994
Profession Freelance writer and meddle school teacher of biology, Xi’an City
Date of arrest 2003-04-05 (detained) / 2003-05 -09 (arrested)
Organ of arrest Public Security Bureau of Xi’an City, Shaanxi Province
Cause of arrest Internet writing and publishing articles (more than 20) of criticising the
authorities
Charge Inciting subversion of the state power
Date of sentence 2003-12-08
Organ of sentence Xi’an Intermediate People’s Court, Shaanxi Province
Sentence 2 Years imprisonment
Defender Lowyers DU Peixin and YU Shengxiu
Place of jail Shaanxi Province
Situation in jail Tortured severely by other prisoners and rescued into hospital
Date of release 2005-04-04
Family contact YAN Keqin (father), Tel: 0086-916-2645036, 0086-13196387257 (m),
GuangxiaGarden6-2-204, Dongta South Street, Hantai District, Hanzhong
Donation to
Case adopted by ICPC
Current Status Release on expiry of the sentence on 2005-04-04
(Case therefore closed) ICPC keeping contact
Fled and stayed in Taiwan
References http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=8752
http://iso.hrichina.org/iso/news_item.adp?news_id=1565
http://www.asiademo.org/gb/author/yanjun.htm (Chinese)
http://www.secretchina.com/news/articles/4/5/7/64698.html (Chinese)