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)