Sex Male
Birth date 1965-02-07
Birth place Shandong Province
Resident place Ji’nan City, Shandong Province
Education University graduate
Profession Journalist and a correspondent of the Weekend Edition of the Legality Daily (Fazhi Ribao), formerly the Legality Morning Post (Fazhi Zaobao) (Honorary member of ICPC)
Date of arrest 2007-06-26 (detained), 2007-08-02 (arrested)
Organ of arrest Public Security Bureau of Tengzhou City, Shandong Province
Cause of arrest Publishing a number of reports on the corruption and injustice related to the local governments and officials, on the media in China and on overseas websites and being interviewed by the overseas media, such as Epoch Times and the Radio of Free Asia in USA; charged for addition trial after his having smuggled out a number of letters to describe the abuses and ill-treatments he experienced in graphic detail in 2009.
Charge Blackmailing (suspicion of economic crimes for being taken away on June 25, suspicion of bluffing and deceiving for detention on June 26), embezzlement and blackmail (additional trial)
Date of sentence 2008-05-13; 2008-07-24 (appeal); 2011-06-09 (additional trial)
Organ of sentence People’s Court of Tengzhou City (twice); Intermediate People’s Court of Zaozhuang City, Shandong Province (appeal)
Sentence 12 Years imprisonment (4 years by the first trial)
Defender Lawyers LI Xiongbing and LI Chunfushigen: Lawyers WANG Quanzhang and LIU Xiaoyuan (additional trial)
Place of jail Tengzhou Prison, Tengzhou City, Shandong Province
Situation in jail tortured and ill-treatments
Date of release 2019-02-13 (reduction of sentence)
Family contact JIAO Xia (wife), Tel: 0086-13361078736, Address: Flat 402, Unit 3, Building 10, Yaotou Xiaoqu, Lixia District, 250000 Jinan City, Shandong Province
Donation to
Case adopted by ICPC
Current Status Released on 2019-02-13 due to sentence reduction
References
http://www.rsf.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=50
http://en.epochtimes.com/news/7-6-12/56383.html
http://zonaeuropa.com/20070625_1.htm
http://en.epochtimes.com/news/7-7-2/57146.html
http://www.cpj.org/news/2008/asia/china13may08na.html
http://windows.qikan.com/Model3/View_Article.aspx?titleid=nafc20071014 (Chinese)
http://www.bjlawyer.net.cn/ShowArticle.shtml?ID=2006113014491298043.htm
http://www.kanzhongguo.com/news/gb/kanshehui/luanxiang/2007/0525/196545.html
http://www.ncn.org/asp/zwginfo/da.asp?ID=71769&ad=5/30/2007 (Chinese)
http://news.epochtimes.com/gb/8/5/13/n2116216.htm (Chinese)