52. ZHANG LIN (released)

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Zhang Lin

Sex                          Male

Birth date                1963-06-02

Birth place              Bangbu City, Anhui Province

Resident place         Bangbu City, Anhui Province

Education               Graduated from Tsinghua University, 1985

Profession               Freelance writer (ICPC member)

Date of arrest          2005-01-29 (administratively detained), 2005-02-13 (criminally detained), 2005-03-19 (arrested); 2009-12-03 (administratively detained) (2nd); 2013-07-19 (criminally detained),  2013-08-22 (arrested) (3rd)

Organ of arrest       Public Security Bureau of Bangbu City(1st); People Police Station, Bangshan Branch of Public Security Bureau of Bangbu City, Anhui Province (2nd); Bangshan Branch of Public Security Bureau of Bangbu City, Anhui Province (3rd)

Cause of arrest         Internet writing and publishing dissident articles (1st); accepting telephone interviews to overseas media (2nd); requiring her daughter to return to the elementary school in Hefei City and initiating netizens petition to support (3rd)

Charge                    Inciting subversion of the state power (1st); violating provisions of supervision and management (2nd); assembling a crowd to disrupt order in public places (3rd)

Date of sentence     2005-07-28, 2005-09-13 (appeal); 2009-12-03 (2nd); 2013-12-18(hearing) , 2014-09-05(verdict)(3rd)

Organ of sentence   Intermediate People’s Court of Bangbu City, Anhui Province, High People’s Court of Anhui Province (appeal); People Police Station, Bangshan Branch of Public Security Bureau of Bangbu City, Anhui Province (2nd); People’s Court of Bangshan District, Bangbu City (3rd)

Sentence                  5 Years imprisonment and 4 Years deprivation of political rights(1st); 10 days (2nd); 3 Years and 6 months imprisonment (3rd)

Defender                 Lawyer Tomas GUO (disbarred) and Lawyer MO Shaoping; Lawyer LIU Xiaoyuan(3rd)

Place of jail             Tongling Prison, Tongling City, Anhui Province(1st); Administrative Detention Center of Bangbu City, Anhui Province (2nd); No. 1 Detention Center of Bangbu City, Anhui Province(3rd)

Situation in jail        Some problems with his legs and teeth

Date of release        2009-08-12 (reduced by 6 months, 1st); 2009-12-13 (2nd); 2016-09-9 (reduced by 4 months and 9 days, 3rd)

Family contact        Tel: 0086-552-4090427

Donation to

Case adopted by     ICPC

Current Status        released on 2016-09-9 due to a sentence reduction of 4 months and days

References
http://www.chinesepen.org/english/as-the-school-year-begins-chinese-dissidents-children-are-left-out-in-the-cold
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=12562
http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/67459
http://www.frontlinedefenders.org/node/27089