{"id":3289,"date":"2019-11-14T02:37:17","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T07:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=3289"},"modified":"2020-02-01T06:55:55","modified_gmt":"2020-02-01T11:55:55","slug":"46-hu-shigen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/46-hu-shigen","title":{"rendered":"46. HU SHIGEN"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Hu<\/a>Pen name<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sex<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Male<\/p>\n

Birth date<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1955-11-14<\/p>\n

Birth place<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province<\/p>\n

Resident place<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Beijing<\/p>\n

Education<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 M. A. in Chinese Literature at Beijing University (1986)<\/p>\n

Profession<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Freelance writer, family church leader, former lecturer at Beijing Language Institute (now Beijing Language and Culture University)<\/p>\n

(Honorary member of ICPC, English PEN and PEN Canada, and ICPC member since December 2009)<\/p>\n

Date of arrest<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1992-05-27 (detained), 1992-09-27 (arrested, 1st); 2015-07-10 (detained, 2nd) ;2015-08-07 (assigned residence residential surveillance, 3rd), 2016-01-08 (arrest)<\/p>\n

Organ of arrest<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Public Security Bureau of Beijing City (1st); Haidian Branch of Public Security Bureau of Beijing City (2nd); Public Security Bureau of Tianjin City (3rd)<\/p>\n

Cause of arrest<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Founding Liberal Democratic Party of China (LDPC) and Free Labour Union of China, and drafting documents for LDPC and articles for commemoration of June-fourth victims in 1989 (1st); participation in a small home-gethering for\u00a0anniversary commemoration of June-Fourth Tiananmen event in\u00a0\u00a0Beijing<\/span>; dissident speeches on China’s democratization at meetings (3rd)<\/p>\n

Charge<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Organising and leading counter-revolutionary group and counter-revolutionary propaganda instigation (1st); suspecion of making troubles (2nd); subversion of the state powder (3rd)<\/p>\n

Date of sentence<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1994-12-16, 1995-06-14 (appeal); 2016-08-03 (3rd)<\/p>\n

Organ of sentence<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Beijing Intermediate People’s Court, Beijing High People’s Court (appeal)<\/p>\n

Sentence<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 20 years imprisonment and 5 years deprivation of political rights (1st);\u00a07.5 years imprisonment and 5 years deprivation of political rights (3rd);<\/p>\n

Defender<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Self (plea of not guilty); lawyers assigned by the court (3rd)<\/p>\n

Place of jail<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Beijing No 2 Prison, Postbox: 2357, Chaoyang District, 100023 Beijing (1st);\u00a0No. 1 Detention Center of Beijing City (2nd); Changtai Prison, Tianjin City\u00a0(3rd)<\/p>\n

Situation in jail<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Under secondary restriction; tortured to have a broken and deformed finger (1st);\u00a0forced to confess, and suffering from severe neurasthenia\u00a0and\u00a0diseases of\u00a0 heart, liver, stomach and ears but\u00a0medical parole denied\u00a0<\/span>(3rd)<\/p>\n

Date of release<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2008-08-26 (reduction by 3 years and 9 months); 2016-06-05 (on bail, 2nd); 2022-10-25 (3rd)<\/p>\n

Family contact<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 HU Fengyun (elder sister), Tel: 0086-13807912885<\/p>\n

Donation to<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Case adopted by<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ICPC, English PEN, PEN Canada<\/p>\n

Current Status<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Main case<\/p>\n

References<\/em><\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/icpc-statement-on-pen-international-day-of-imprisoned-writers-two-writers-honoured-the-liu-xiaobo-courage-to-write-award<\/a><\/span>
\nhttps:\/\/u.osu.edu\/mclc\/2016\/09\/14\/hu-shigen-thought\/<\/a><\/span>
\nhttp:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/china-jails-activist-for-7-5-years-for-subversion-amid-lawyer-crackdown<\/a><\/span>
\nhttp:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/08\/04\/world\/asia\/china-hu-shigen.html?_r=0<\/a><\/span>
\nhttps:\/\/gt.foreignpolicy.com\/2016\/profile\/gou-hongguo-zhou-shifeng-hu-shigen-and-zhai-yanmin?636bee9f51=<\/a><\/span>
\nhttps:\/\/chinachange.org\/2014\/05\/05\/scholars-and-lawyers-disappeared-after-june-4th-seminar-in-beijing\/<\/a><\/span>
\nhttp:\/\/www.englishpen.org\/writersinprison\/writersinexile\/hushigen\/<\/a><\/span>
\n https:\/\/pen.org\/nonfiction-memoir\/how-big-character-xin<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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