8. YANG Zili
Pen name Yangzi
Sex Male
Birth date 1971-12-10
Birth place Daming County, Hebei Province
Resident place Beijing
Education M. Sc. in Mechanics, BeijingUniversity, July, 1998
Profession Computer engineer at Chinese Computer Software Development Cooperation,
Beijing.
(Honorary members of ICPC and GhanaianPENCenter, ICPC member since Dec 2009)
Date of arrest 2001-03-13 (secretly detained) / 2001-04-20 (arrested)
Organ of arrest National Security Bureau of Beijing City
Cause of arrest Joining the New Youth Study Group and creator of a website of Yangzis Home
of Ideas, (www.lib.126.com)
Charge Subversion of the state power
Date of sentence 2003-05-28, 2003-11-10 (appeal)
Organ of sentence Beijing Intermediate People’s Court, Beijing High People’s Court (appeal)
Sentence 8 Years imprisonment and 2 Years deprivation of political rights
Defender Lawyers XU Wanlin and LI Heping
Place of jail Beijing No 2 Prison, Postbox: 2357-7, Chaoyang District, 100023 Beijing
Situation in jail Since May 2007 starting feeling sick, often falling in faint, or having dusky eyes, a tingling tongue, palpitating heart, shivering body, and even having urine incontinence, which usually lasts for half an hour to be over while only lying down. No medical care yet
Date of release 2009-03-12
Family contact LU Kun (wife), [email protected], Yang Zili: +86-13552727537
Donation to
Case adopted by ICPC, Ghanaian PEN
Current Status Release on expiry of the sentence on 2009-03-12
(Case therefore closed) ICPC keeping contact
References http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=1868
http://www.alliance.org.hk/prison/?lang=c&viewid=3089 (Chinese)
http://www.boxun.com/my-cgi/post/display_all.cgi?cat=yangzili (Chinese)