81. CHEN Daojun
Pen name
Sex Male
Birth date 1968-12-22
Birth place Jintang County, Sichuan Province
Resident place Jintang County, Sichuan Province
Education Middle school
Profession Freelance writer and formerly journalist (Honorary Member of ICPC)
Date of arrest 2008-05-09 (detained), 2008-06-13 (arrested)
Organ of arrest Public Security Bureau of Jintang Country, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province
Cause of arrest Internet writing and publishing dissent articles, particularly including one paying his respect to Tibetan people, defending their rights and condemning the violent crackdown on their protests
Charge Inciting Subversion of State power (originally as inciting the split of the country charged by police and prosecution
Date of sentence 2008-11-21
Organ of sentence Intermediate People’s Court of Chengdu City, Sichuan Province
Sentence 3 years imprisonment and 3 years deprivation of political rights
Defender Lawyers XIANG Yang and ZHU Jiuhu
Place of jail Chuanzhong Prison, Nanchong City, Sichuan Province
Situation in jail OK
Date of release 2011-05-08
Family contact Zeng Qirong (wife), Tel: +86-288-4985450, +86-13540081094
Donation to
Case adopted by ICPC
Current Status Released on expiry of the sentence on 2011-05-08
(Therefore the case closed) ICPC keeping contact
References http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/May2008/12/c7609.html
http://www.internationalpen.org.uk/go/news/china-dissident-writer-chen-daojun-detained
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=29202
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/chen-11052008084504.html (Chinese)
http://www.newssc.org/gb/Newssc/meiti/cdrb/rdxw/userobject10ai1403034.html (Chinese)
http://news.boxun.com/news/gb/china/2008/12/200812020107.shtml (Chinese)
http://www.fireofliberty.org/author.asp?authorid=204 (Chinese)
http://www.chinesepen.org/Article/hyxz/200812/Article_20081206031830.shtml