9. ZHANG Honghai
Pen name Jiang Mingzu
Sex Male
Birth date 1973-11-01
Birth place Jinyun County, Zhejiang Province
Resident place Jinyun County, Zhejiang Province
Education B.Sc. Beijing Broadcast Institute, Beijing, July, 2000.
Profession Freelance writer
(Honorary members of ICPC and GhanaianPENCenter)
Date of arrest 2001-03-13 (secretly detained) / 2001-04-20 (arrested)
Organ of arrest National Security Bureau of Beijing City
Cause of arrest Founding the New Youth Study Group together with Xu Wei and Jin Haike,
internet posting of the articles
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 ZHANG Sizi and YAN Ruyu
Place of jail Qiaosi Prison, Postbox: 1910-2, 310019 Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province
Situation in jail Vitiligo getting worse to the serious imbalance of endocrine, and also prolapse of anus; often beaten and shut into isolation cell due to his arguments with the guards
Date of release 2009-03-12
Family contact ZHANG Ruiqing (father) and FAN Yunmei (mother), Tel: 0086-578-3133607，2585955; Sihou Zhongxiang 8-301, Wuyun Town, Jinyun County, Zhejiang Province, post code: 321400
Donation to Zhang Ruiqing by the West Union
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://iso.hrichina.org:8151/iso/article.adp?article_id=1210&subcategory_id=204
http://www.zhongguohun.com/chison/yujie/035.html (Chinese)
http://www.alliance.org.hk/prison/?lang=c&viewid=3092 (Chinese)