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/
