91. TAN Zuoren
Pen name
Sex Male
Birth date 1954-05-15
Birth place Chengdu City, Sichuan Province
Resident place Chengdu City, Sichuan Province
Education Graduate from Huaxi Medical University
Profession Freelance writer, environmentalist, former editor of Literati magazine and former anaesthetist (Honorary Member of ICPC)
Date of arrest 2009-03-28 (detained), 2009-04-30 (arrested)
Organ of arrest Public Security Bureau of Chengdu City, Sichuan Province
Cause of arrest Trying to compile “5.12 Student Archive”, a list of children killed in schools that collapsed during a devastating earthquake on May 12, 2008, and in 2007 publishing at overseas Chinese website a memo (a series of 3 parts) based on his dairy on June Fourth Massacre in Beijing, 1989.
Charge Inciting subversion of State power
Date of sentence 2009-08-12 (hearing), 2010-02-09 (verdict); 2010-06-09 (appeal)
Organ of sentence Intermediate People’s Court of Chengdu City, High People’s Court of Sichuan Province
Sentence 5 year imprisonment and 3 years deprivation of political rights
Defender Lawyers PU Zhiqiang and XIA Lin
Place of jail Ya’an Prison, Mingshan County, 625100 Ya’an City, Sichuan Province
Situation in jail OK
Date of release 2014-03-27
Family contact Wang Qinghua (wife), Tel: +86- 28-85415735, 28-88053395，13541233125
Donation to
Case adopted by ICPC
Current Status Released on expiry of the sentence on 2014-03-27
(Therefore the case closed) ICPC keeping contact
References http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7976093.stm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tan_Zuoren
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/country,,,,CHN,4562d8cf2,49db17871e,0.html
http://chinadigitaltimes.net/china/tan-zuoren/
http://blogs.amnesty.org.uk/blogs_entry.asp?eid=3629
http://crd-net.org/Article/Class53/200904/20090401033542_14609.html (Chinese)
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%B0%AD%E4%BD%9C%E4%BA%BA (Chinese)
http://peacehall.com/news/gb/china/2009/04/200904292315.shtml (Chinese)