74. WANG Xiaoning
Pen name SHI Cheng, CHEN Ping,Tiandi Pingshu
Sex Male
Birth date 1950-01-07
Birth place Shenyang City, Liaoning Province
Resident place Xicheng District, Beijing City
Education Graduate from the East University of Technology, Nanjing City (1977)
Profession Freelance writer and editor of several e-journals (ICPC Member since April 2013)
Date of arrest 2002-09-01 (detained), 2002-09-30 (arrested)
Organ of arrest National Security Bureau of Beijing City
Cause of arrest Internet writing/publishing dissent articles, editing and distributing e-journals by e-mail, and publicizing the ideas to prepare the Third Road Party.
Charge Inciting subversion of state power
Date of sentence 2003-07-25
Organ of sentence The No 1 Intermediate People’s Court of Beijing City
Sentence 10 Years imprisonment and 2 Years deprivation of political rights
Defender Lawyers BAI Yu and HAO Jun
Place of jail Beijing No 2 Prison, Postbox: 2357-16, Chaoyang District, 100121 Beijing (since 2010)
Situation in jail Tortured to stop his appealing
Date of release 2012-08-31
Family contact YU Ling (wife)
Donation to
Case adopted by ICPC
Current Status Main case (the earliest case found in which Yahoo had a role of cooperation with Chinese authorities)
Release on expiry of the sentence on 2012-08-31
(Therefore the case closed) joined ICPC
References http://www.ifex.org/eng/layout/set/print/content/view/full/74074/
http://www.fidh.org/article.php3?id_article=3290
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2006/04/29/2003305143
http://www.guancha.org/info/artshow.asp?ID=38885 (Chinese)
http://www.asiademo.org/gb/author/wangxiaoning.htm (Chinese)
http://www.weachina.com/author/wangxiaoning.htm (Chinese)
http://gb.hrichina.org/gate/gb/www.hrichina.org/public/PDFs/PressReleases/Wang-Xiaoning-27Apr06.Judgment.pdf (Chinese)