{"id":3305,"date":"2014-09-23T02:46:07","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T02:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=3305"},"modified":"2015-10-30T20:26:29","modified_gmt":"2015-10-31T00:26:29","slug":"54-zheng-yichun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/54-zheng-yichun","title":{"rendered":"54. ZHENG YICHUN (released)"},"content":{"rendered":"

54. \u00a0 ZHENG Yichun<\/h3>\n

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 1959-01-27<\/p>\n

Birth place<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yingkou City, Liaoning Province<\/p>\n

Resident place<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yingkou City, Liaoning Province<\/p>\n

Education<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 B. A. in English language and Literature at Dalian Institute of Foreign Languages,<\/p>\n

1983<\/p>\n

Profession<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Poet, professor and freelance writer<\/p>\n

(Honorary member of ICPC\uff0cPEN Canada and PEN Flanders,<\/p>\n

ICPC member since December 2012)<\/p>\n

Date of arrest<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2004-12-20 (detained) \/ 2004-12-31 (arrested);<\/p>\n

Organ of arrest<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Public Security Bureau of Yingkou City, Liaoning Province<\/p>\n

Cause of arrest<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Internet writing and publishing dissident articles<\/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<\/p>\n

Date of sentence<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2005-09-20 \/2005-12-22 (appeal)<\/p>\n

Organ of sentence<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Yingkou Intermediate People’s Court, Liaoning 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 7 Years imprisonment and 3 Years deprivation of political rights<\/p>\n

Defender<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lawyer LI Mingchang \/ Lawyers GAO Zhishen (appeal, disbarred)<\/p>\n

Place of jail<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jinzhou Prison, Nanshan Road 86, Taihe District, 121013 Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province<\/p>\n

Situation in jail<\/em><\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Diabetes getting more serious, and later brain infarction, high blood pressure<\/p>\n

Date of release<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2011-12-19<\/p>\n

Family contact<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ZHENG Shaochun (brother), Tel: 0086-417-2609714 (School)<\/p>\n

ZHENG Xiaochun (brother), Tel: 0086-417-2693406, 0086-13941708674<\/p>\n

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

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

Current Status<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release on expiry of the sentence on 2011-12-19<\/p>\n

(Case therefore closed)<\/p>\n

References<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 http:\/\/www.chinesepen.net\/en\/zhengyichun.htm<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.cpj.org\/news\/2005\/China26apr05na.html<\/p>\n

http:\/\/peacehall.com\/news\/gb\/china\/2005\/07\/200507251152.shtml (Chinese)<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.boxun.com\/my-cgi\/post\/display_all.cgi?cat=zhengyc (Chinese)<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.epochtimes.com\/gb\/5\/9\/22\/n1061935.htm (Chinese)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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