83. SUN Lin
Pen name Jie Mu
Sex Male
Birth date 1955-12-25
Birth place Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province
Resident place Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province
Education Middle school
Profession Freelance journalist and China correspondence of US-based website Boxun News
(ICPC Member since April 2012)
Date of arrest 2007-05-30 (detained), 2007-07-04 (arrested),
Organ of arrest Public Security Bureau of Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province
Cause of arrest Reporting the wrongdoings of local governments got his journalist’s ID confiscated in 2003, and continuing to do so.
Charge Gathering crowds to disturb social order and illegal possession of firearms
Date of sentence 2008-06-26, 2008-08-26 (appeal)
Organ of sentence Xuanwu District People’s Court, Intermediate People’s Court of Nanjing City , Jiangsu Province (appeal)
Sentence 4 years imprisonment
Defender Lawyer MO Shaoping
Place of jail Pukou Prison, Nanjing City 210031, Jiangsu Province
Situation in jail Headache from early wound on the head, sometime causing apathetic in half of the body
Date of release 2011-05-29
Family contact HE Fang (wife)
Donation to
Case adopted by ICPC
Current Status Released on expiry of the sentence on 2011-05-29
(Therefore the case closed) joined ICPC
References http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=22352
http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/95002/
http://crd-net.org/Article/Class9/Class10/200806/20080629055538_9202.html
http://www.peacehall.com/news/gb/china/2007/06/200706021620.shtml (Chinese)
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/shenrubaodao/2007/06/13/jiemu/(Chinese)
http://www.peacehall.com/news/gb/china/2008/06/200806271953.shtml (Chinese)