92. WU Baoquan
Pen name Zhaowoma
Sex Male
Birth date 1970-04-07
Birth place Hebei Province
Resident place Qingdao City, Shandong Province
Education Middle School
Profession Businessman, nutritionist, blogger (Honorary Member of ICPC)
Date of arrest 2007-09-16 (administrative detention), 2008-04-27 (detained), 2008-06-04 (arrested)
Organ of arrest Dongsheng District Branch, Public Security Bureau of Ordos City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
Cause of arrest Internet posting of two reports exposing the land requisition problem of the Ordos city government and relevant corruptions.
Charge Defamation (slander)
Date of sentence 2008-09-17, 2009-02-26 (retrial), 2009-04-01 (appeal)
Organ of sentence People’s Court of Dongsheng District (1st & retrial) , Intermediate People’s Court of Ordos City (appeal), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
Sentence 2 years imprisonment (1 year by 1st trial, additional year by retrial after his appeal)
Defender Lawyer ZHAO Feng
Place of jail Prison of Ordos City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
Situation in jail Tortured during detention
Date of release 2007-09-26 (after 10 days detention), 2010-04-28
Family contact
Donation to
Case adopted by ICPC
Current Status Release on expiry of sentence on 2010-01-15
(Therefore the case closed)
References http://www.feer.com/essays/2009/may/chinas-battle-over-the-right-to-criticize
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-04/23/content_7707605.htm
http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2009/04/21/china-free-wu-baoquan/
http://www.nanfangdaily.com.cn/nfjx/200904220017.asp (Chinese)
http://hi.baidu.com/bladesoul/blog/item/e859abaf865235f3fbed50a5.html (Chinese)
http://www.chinalawyer.org.cn/user/request/ShowRequest.asp?id=10696 (Chinese)
http://news.cnfol.com/080327/101,1584,3960565,00.shtml (Chinese)