Category Archives: China

Name                       ZHANG Jialong

Sex                             Male

Birth date               1988-05-22

Birth place             Guiyang City, Guizhou Province

Resident place     Guiyang City, Guizhou Province

Education              Graduate from Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region

Profession              Freelance journalist, blogger, and former editor at Tencent Finance

Date of arrest          2019-08-12 (taken away), 2019-08-13 (detention),  2019-09-13 (arrest)

Organ of arrest       Public Security Bureau of Guiyang City, Guizhou Province

Cause of arrest        The indictment accused that Zhang Jialong had slandered the images of the Chinese Communist Party, the country, and the government through posting a lot of false information on Twitter since 2016.

Charge                         Suspicion of Picking quarrels and provoking trouble

Date of sentence    2020-05-13 (hearing)

Organ of sentence  People’s Court of Nanming District, Guiyang City

Sentence                      not yet

Defender                      lawyer YAN Xin

Place of jail                 Detention Center of Nanming District, Guiyang City,

Situation in jail        Unknown

Date of release         not yet

Family contact        

Donation to

Case adopted by     ICPC

Current Status        Main case

References
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Jialong
https://foreignpolicy.com/author/zhang-jialong/
https://www.nchrd.org/2020/06/zhang-jialong/
https://ifex.org/journalist-zhang-jialong-latest-victim-of-chinas-notorious-online-censorship-system/
https://rsf.org/en/news/china-rsf-demands-release-former-journalist-critical-censorship
https://cpj.org/data/people/zhang-jialong/
https://www.businessinsider.com/tencent-fires-zhang-jialong-for-talking-to-john-kerry-2014-5?r=US&IR=T
https://chinachange.org/2014/05/24/circumstances-of-my-dismissal-from-tencent/