Pen name ZENG Renquan, HUA Liangxing, CHU Yichu, CHUTIAN Yixiao
Sex Male
Birth date 1961-02-22
Birth place Zhongxiang County, Hubei Province
Resident place Zhongxiang City, Hubei Province
Education B.Sc. in Financial Accounting at Zhongnan University of Economics, Wuhan, Hubei Province in 1988
Profession Freelance writer, formerly taxation official at the Taxation Bureau of Zhongxiang City (ICPC member)
Date of arrest 2008-05-03 (surveillance of residence, 1st); 2017-11-10 (administrative detention, 2nd), 2017-11-24 (criminal detention), 2017-12-29 (arrest)
Organ of arrest National Security Bureau of Zhongxiang City (1st), and Dongbao Branch of Public Security Bureau of Jingmen City (2nd), Hubei Province
Cause of arrest Writing and publishing articles and reports on various social issues and official corruptions
Charge suspicion of inciting subversion of state power (1st); organising illegal gathering, online picking quarrels and provoking trouble, defamation (2nd)
Date of sentence 2019-02-21 (hearing), 2019-06-28 (verdict)
Organ of sentence People’s Court of Duodao District, Jingmen City, Hubei Province
Sentence Four years and six months imprisonment
Defender Lawyers LEI Gang (replaced), WANG Le (replaced), LIU Zhengqing (disbarred) and LONG Lin
Place of jail Unknown hostel (1st), Detention Center of Jingmen City, Hubei Province
Situation in jail OK
Date of release 2008-05-15 (1st), 2022-05-23 (2nd)
Family contact ZHANG Zhongfeng (wife), Tel: +86-724-4268125
Donation to
Case adopted by ICPC
Current Status Main case
To appeal
References
https://cpj.org/tags/zhou-yuanzhi
https://pen.org/rapid-action/dissident-writer-zhou-yuanzhi-released/
https://chinadigitaltimes.net/china/zhou-yuanzhi/
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/May2008/07/c5852.html
http://www.cicus.org/info_eng/artshow.asp?id=9890&ad=5/6/2008%2012:01:00%20AM
http://www.chinesepen.org/blog/archives/95957(Chinese)
http://www.chinesepen.org/blog/archives/95362(Chinese)