90. YUAN Xianchen
Pen name
Sex Male
Birth date 1964-11-02
Birth place Jixi City, Heilongjiang Province
Resident place Jixi City, Heilongjiang Province
Education College graduate
Profession Law worker, human rights activist (Honorary Member of ICPC)
Date of arrest 2008-05-29 (detained), 2008-06-30 (arrested)
Organ of arrest Public Security Bureau of Jixi City, Heilongjiang Province
Cause of arrest Writing and distributing dissident articles, having interviews with overseas media
Charge Inciting subversion of State power
Date of sentence 2009-03-04, 2010-08 (appeal)
Organ of sentence Intermediate People’s Court of Jixi City, High People’s Court of Heilongjiang Province
Sentence 4 year imprisonment and 5 years deprivation of political rights
Defender Lawyers LI Fangping and LI Xiongbing
Place of jail Dongfeng Prison, Haerbin City, Heilongjiang Province
Situation in jail Tortured and unhealthy
Date of release 2012-05-28
Family contact ZHANG Shuzhi (wife), Tel: +86-13115379263，13945867748
Donation to
Case adopted by ICPC
Current Status Released on expiry of the sentence on 2012-05-28
(Therefore the case closed) ICPC keeping contact
References http://crd-net.org/Article/Class9/Class10/200903/20090306133405_14109.html
http://asiapacific.ifj.org/en/articles/ifj-condemns-harsh-sentence-for-lawyer-in-china
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuan_Xianchen
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/weiquan-03062009090145.html (Chinese)
http://www.msguancha.com/Article/ShowArticle.asp?ArticleID=1465 (Chinese)
http://crd-net.org/Article/Class18/yuanxianchen/200903/20090307220113_14141.html (Chinese)