Birth date 1969-04-06
Birth place ShanyangCounty, Hanzhong City, Shaanxi Province
Resident place Xi’an City, Shaanxi Province
Education B.Sc. in History at ShaanxiNormalUniversity, 1992
Profession Former secondary school teacher, and freelance writer (ICPC member since June 2010)
Date of arrest 2002-11-07 (house arrest), 2002-11-28 (detained) , 2002-12-27 (arrested); 2013-04-17 (detained) , 2013-05-24 (arrested, 2nd );
2016-05-31 (detained, 3rd)
Organ of arrest Public Security Bureau of Xi’an City, Shaanxi Province;
Public Security Bureau of BeijingCity (2nd and 3rd)
Cause of arrest Writing and publishing on internet an open letter for political reform to 16th Congress of CCP; Participation in public activities calling for officials to disclose property (2nd )
Gathering for commemoration of June Fourth Event at a private residence (in the same case of LIANG Taiping and ZHANG Baocheng) (3rd)
Charge Inciting subversion of the state power; Illegal assembly(detained), Assembling a crowd to disrupt order in public places(arrested and sentenced, 2nd ), creating troubles (3rd)
Date of sentence 2003-08-04; 2014-01-23(hearing), 2014-04-10(hearing continuous), 2014-04-18(verdict), 2014-06-27 (appeal, 2nd ), not yet (3rd)
Organ of sentence Xi’an Intermediate People’s Court, Shaanxi Province; People’s Court of Haidian District, Beijing City, No. 1 Intermediate People’s Court of Beijing City (2nd ); not yet (3rd)
Sentence 5 Years imprisonment and 3 years deprivation of political rights; 2 years and 6 months(2nd ); not yet (3rd)
Defender Lawyer DOU Peixin; Lawyer LIN Qilei and ZHANG Xuezhong, Lawyer WANG Fu (2nd ), Lawer LI Boguang (3rd)
Place of jail Weinan Prison, Letian Street 118, 714000 Weinan City, Shaanxi Province; No. 3 Detention Center of BeijingCity (2nd ), Detention Center of Fengtai District, Beijing (3rd)
Situation in jail Ever in prison hospital due to white plague severer, OK (2nd), unknown (3rd)
Date of release 2007-11-27; 2015-10-16(2nd ), 2016-07-07 (on bail, 3rd)
Family contact
Donation to
Case adopted by ICPC
Current Status released on bail on 2016-07-07 pending trail for a year
References
http://www.chinesepen.org/english/at-least-three-activists-detained-in-beijing-over-tiananmen-massacre-commemoration
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhao_Changqing
http://www.frontlinedefenders.org/node/25763
http://www.chinesepen.org/english/News/NewsinICPC/201304/english_37887.html
http://chrdnet.com/2014/03/submission-to-un-on-zhao-changqing-february-20-2014/