{"id":3301,"date":"2016-09-09T23:44:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-10T03:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=3301"},"modified":"2016-09-10T00:49:33","modified_gmt":"2016-09-10T04:49:33","slug":"52-zhang-lin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/52-zhang-lin","title":{"rendered":"52. ZHANG LIN (released)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Zhang<\/a><\/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 1963-06-02<\/p>\n

Birth place<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bangbu City, Anhui Province<\/p>\n

Resident place<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bangbu City, Anhui Province<\/p>\n

Education<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Graduated from Tsinghua University, 1985<\/p>\n

Profession<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Freelance writer (ICPC member)<\/p>\n

Date of arrest<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2005-01-29 (administratively detained), 2005-02-13 (criminally detained), 2005-03-19 (arrested); 2009-12-03 (administratively detained) (2nd<\/sup>); 2013-07-19 (criminally detained), \u00a02013-08-22 (arrested) (3rd<\/sup>)<\/p>\n

Organ of arrest<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Public Security Bureau of Bangbu City(1st<\/sup>); People Police Station, Bangshan Branch of Public Security Bureau of Bangbu City, Anhui Province (2nd<\/sup>); Bangshan Branch of Public Security Bureau of Bangbu City, Anhui Province (3rd<\/sup>)<\/p>\n

Cause of arrest<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Internet writing and publishing dissident articles (1st<\/sup>); accepting telephone interviews to overseas media (2nd<\/sup>); requiring her daughter to return to the elementary school in Hefei City and initiating netizens petition to support (3rd<\/sup>)<\/p>\n

Charge<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Inciting subversion of the state power (1st<\/sup>); violating provisions of supervision and management (2nd<\/sup>); assembling a crowd to disrupt order in public places (3rd<\/sup>)<\/p>\n

Date of sentence<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2005-07-28, 2005-09-13 (appeal); 2009-12-03 (2nd<\/sup>); 2013-12-18(hearing) , 2014-09-05(verdict)(3rd<\/sup>)<\/p>\n

Organ of sentence<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Intermediate People’s Court of Bangbu City, Anhui Province, High People’s Court of Anhui Province (appeal); People Police Station, Bangshan Branch of Public Security Bureau of Bangbu City, Anhui Province (2nd<\/sup>); People’s Court of Bangshan District, Bangbu City (3rd<\/sup>)<\/p>\n

Sentence<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 5 Years imprisonment and 4 Years deprivation of political rights(1st<\/sup>); 10 days (2nd<\/sup>); 3 Years and 6 months imprisonment (3rd<\/sup>)<\/p>\n

Defender<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lawyer Tomas GUO (disbarred) and Lawyer MO Shaoping; Lawyer LIU Xiaoyuan(3rd<\/sup>)<\/p>\n

Place of jail<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tongling Prison, Tongling City, Anhui Province(1st<\/sup>); Administrative Detention Center of Bangbu City, Anhui Province (2nd<\/sup>); No. 1 Detention Center of Bangbu City, Anhui Province(3rd<\/sup>)<\/p>\n

Situation in jail<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Some problems with his legs and teeth<\/p>\n

Date of release\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>2009-08-12 (reduced by 6 months, 1st<\/sup>); 2009-12-13 (2nd<\/sup>); 2016-09-9 (reduced by\u00a04 months and 9 days, 3rd<\/sup>)<\/p>\n

Family contact<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tel: 0086-552-4090427<\/p>\n

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

Case adopted by<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ICPC<\/p>\n

Current Status<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0released on 2016-09-9 due to a sentence reduction of\u00a04 months and days<\/p>\n

References<\/em><\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/as-the-school-year-begins-chinese-dissidents-children-are-left-out-in-the-cold<\/a><\/span>
\n http:\/\/www.rsf.org\/article.php3?id_article=12562<\/a><\/span>
\n http:\/\/www.ifex.org\/en\/content\/view\/full\/67459<\/a><\/span>
\n http:\/\/www.frontlinedefenders.org\/node\/27089<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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