47. ZHAO Yan
Pen name
Sex Male
Birth date 1962-03-14
Birth place Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province
Resident place Beijing
Education B. A. in literature at Heilongjiang University, 1985
Profession News Assistant at Beijing Bureau of New York Times, former reporter and
editor at China Reform Magazine (Honorary member of ICPC)
Date of arrest 2004-09-17 (detained) / 2004-10-20 (arrested)
Organ of arrest National Security Bureau of Beijing City
Cause of arrest Alleged to have revealed the news of Jiang Zemin’s resigning to NYT, and also investigating and publishing articles to help the farmers to uphold their rights
Charge Divulging state secrets (dropped) and fraud
Date of sentence 2006-08-25/2006-11-31(appeal)
Organ of sentence Beijing No. 2 Intermediate People’s Court (closed trial), Beijing High People’s Court (appeal)
Sentence 3 Years imprisonment
Defender Lawyer MO Shaoping
Place of jail Detention Center of National Security Bureau of Beijing City
Situation in jail Held incommunicado
Date of release 2007-09-16
Family contact
Donation to
Case adopted by ICPC
Current Status Release on expiry of the sentence on 2007-09-16
(Therefore the case closed) ICPC keeping contact
References http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=18663
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhao_Yan
http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/61529/
http://www.dajiyuan.com/gb/4/9/21/n666932.htm (Chinese)
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%B5%B5%E5%B2%A9 (Chinese)
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/shenrubaodao/2006/08/25/zhaoyan/ (Chinese)