79. HE Yanjie
Pen name
Sex Male
Birth date 1974-03-13
Birth place Qingfeng County, Henan Province
Resident place Ji’nan City, Shandong Province
Education
Profession Freelance reporter, formerly journalist at Shandong Workers Daily (Shandong Gongren Bao) and China Tobacco Post (Zhongguo Yancao Bao) (Honorary Member of ICPC)
Date of arrest 2007-06-25 (detained), 2007-08-02 (arrested)
Organ of arrest Public Security Bureau of Tengzhou City, Shandong Province
Cause of arrest As an assistant to QI Chonghuai, making research and interview on the corruption and injustice related to the local governments and officials, and co-author some reports on the newspaper and on Internet (codefendant of QI’s case)
Charge Blackmailing
Date of sentence 2008-05-13; 2008-07-24 (appeal)
Organ of sentence People’s Court of Tengzhou City; Intermediate People’s Court of Zaozhuang City, Shandong Province (appeal)
Sentence 2 Years imprisonment
Defender Lawyer
Place of jail Tengzhou Prison, Tengzhou City, Shandong Province
Situation in jail OK
Date of release 2009-06-25
Family contact Liu Zhike (wife), Tel: 0086-13065055740
Donation to
Case adopted by ICPC
Current Status Release on expiry of the sentence on 2009-06-25
(Therefore the case closed)
References http://www.wan-press.org/article16370.html
http://egypt.ifex.org/20fr/content/view/full/90456/
http://www.chinesepen.com/wipc/2008feb/020w.htm (Chinese)
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/shenrubaodao/2008/02/21/qi_chonghuai/ (Chinese)
http://www.wccs.gov.cn/index.php?act=aview&tid=2273 (Chinese)
http://news.epochtimes.com/gb/8/5/13/n2116216.htm (Chinese)