54. ZHENG Yichun
Pen name
Sex Male
Birth date 1959-01-27
Birth place Yingkou City, Liaoning Province
Resident place Yingkou City, Liaoning Province
Education B. A. in English language and Literature at Dalian Institute of Foreign Languages,
1983
Profession Poet, professor and freelance writer
(Honorary member of ICPC，PEN Canada and PEN Flanders,
ICPC member since December 2012)
Date of arrest 2004-12-20 (detained) / 2004-12-31 (arrested);
Organ of arrest Public Security Bureau of Yingkou City, Liaoning Province
Cause of arrest Internet writing and publishing dissident articles
Charge Inciting subversion of the state power
Date of sentence 2005-09-20 /2005-12-22 (appeal)
Organ of sentence Yingkou Intermediate People’s Court, Liaoning High People’s Court (appeal),
Sentence 7 Years imprisonment and 3 Years deprivation of political rights
Defender Lawyer LI Mingchang / Lawyers GAO Zhishen (appeal, disbarred)
Place of jail Jinzhou Prison, Nanshan Road 86, Taihe District, 121013 Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province
Situation in jail Diabetes getting more serious, and later brain infarction, high blood pressure
Date of release 2011-12-19
Family contact ZHENG Shaochun (brother), Tel: 0086-417-2609714 (School)
ZHENG Xiaochun (brother), Tel: 0086-417-2693406, 0086-13941708674
Donation to
Case adopted by ICPC, PEN Canada, PEN Flanders
Current Status Release on expiry of the sentence on 2011-12-19
(Case therefore closed)
References http://www.chinesepen.net/en/zhengyichun.htm
http://www.cpj.org/news/2005/China26apr05na.html
http://peacehall.com/news/gb/china/2005/07/200507251152.shtml (Chinese)
http://www.boxun.com/my-cgi/post/display_all.cgi?cat=zhengyc (Chinese)
http://www.epochtimes.com/gb/5/9/22/n1061935.htm (Chinese)