38. YU HUAFENG (released)

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38. YU Huafeng

Pen name

Sex                          Male

Birth date                1968-12-25

Birth place              Jingshan County, Hubei Province

Resident place         Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province

Education               B.A in Archives Science at Zhongguo People’s University, 1990

Profession               Vice Editor-in-Chief and General Manager of Nanfang Dushi Bao (Southern

Metropolis News), Vice-president and General Manager of Xin Jing Bao (The Beijing News), Honorary member of ICPC

Date of arrest          2004-01-09 (detained) / 2004-01-14 (arrested)

Organ of arrest       Public Security Bureau of Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province

Cause of arrest       Publishing on Southern Metropolis News a number of publishing stories that

embarrass local authorities, especially the reports on SARS cases and the case of Sun Zhigang, an university graduate who had been beaten to death in a detention center for homeless people

Charge                    Corruption and bribery

Date of sentence     2004-03-19, 2004-06-15 (appeal)

Organ of sentence   Dongshan People’s Court, Guangzhou Intermediate People’s Court (appeal)

Sentence                  8 Years imprisonment and confiscating the property of RMB 50000 (appeal)

Defender                 Lawyers WANG Bo and XU Zhiyong

Place of jail             Panyu Prison, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province

Situation in jail        Gastric disease and arthritis getting more serious

Date of release        2008-02-08 (reduced)

Family contact        XIANG Li (wife), Tel: 0086-13902278498

Donation to

Case adopted by     ICPC, Ghanaian PEN

Current Status         released on 2008-02-08 due to 3 years and 11 months reduction of the sentence

(Therefore the case closed)

References              http://www.cpj.org/protests/04ltrs/China09apr04pl.html

http://radiofreechina.wordpress.com/2007/02/14/reporters-without-borders-hails-release-

of-li-minying/

http://www.xianzheng.org/xianzhengxingdong/nanfangdushibao/nanfangdushibao.htm (Chinese)