{"id":3506,"date":"2014-10-01T15:33:35","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T19:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=3506"},"modified":"2015-10-30T19:59:17","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T23:59:17","slug":"91-tan-zuoren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/91-tan-zuoren","title":{"rendered":"91. TAN ZUOREN (released)"},"content":{"rendered":"

91. \u00a0 TAN Zuoren<\/h3>\n

Pen name\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/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 1954-05-15<\/p>\n

Birth place<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Chengdu City, Sichuan Province<\/p>\n

Resident place<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Chengdu City, Sichuan Province<\/p>\n

Education<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Graduate from Huaxi Medical University<\/p>\n

Profession<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Freelance writer, environmentalist, former editor of Literati magazine and former anaesthetist (Honorary Member of ICPC)<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Date of arrest<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2009-03-28 (detained), 2009-04-30 (arrested)<\/p>\n

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

Cause of arrest<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Trying to compile \u201c5.12 Student Archive\u201d, a list of children killed in schools that collapsed during a devastating earthquake on May 12, 2008, and in 2007 publishing at overseas Chinese website a memo (a series of 3 parts) based on his dairy on June Fourth Massacre in Beijing, 1989.<\/p>\n

Charge<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Inciting subversion of State power<\/p>\n

Date of sentence<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2009-08-12 (hearing), 2010-02-09 (verdict); 2010-06-09 (appeal)<\/p>\n

Organ of sentence<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 Intermediate People\u2019s Court of Chengdu City, High People\u2019s Court of Sichuan Province<\/p>\n

Sentence\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>5 year 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 Lawyers PU Zhiqiang and XIA Lin<\/p>\n

Place of jail\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>Ya’an Prison, Mingshan County, 625100 Ya’an City, Sichuan Province<\/p>\n

Situation in jail\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>OK<\/p>\n

Date of release<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2014-03-27<\/p>\n

Family contact<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Wang Qinghua (wife), Tel: +86- 28-85415735, 28-88053395\uff0c13541233125<\/p>\n

Donation to\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0Case adopted by<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ICPC<\/p>\n

Current Status<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Released on expiry of the sentence on 2014-03-27<\/p>\n

(Therefore the case closed) ICPC keeping contact<\/p>\n

\u00a0References<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/asia-pacific\/7976093.stm<\/p>\n

http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tan_Zuoren<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/refworld\/country,,,,CHN,4562d8cf2,49db17871e,0.html<\/p>\n

http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/china\/tan-zuoren\/<\/p>\n

http:\/\/blogs.amnesty.org.uk\/blogs_entry.asp?eid=3629<\/p>\n

http:\/\/crd-net.org\/Article\/Class53\/200904\/20090401033542_14609.html (Chinese)<\/p>\n

http:\/\/zh.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%E8%B0%AD%E4%BD%9C%E4%BA%BA (Chinese)<\/p>\n

http:\/\/peacehall.com\/news\/gb\/china\/2009\/04\/200904292315.shtml (Chinese)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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