{"id":3727,"date":"2020-07-02T06:16:12","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T10:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=3727"},"modified":"2020-07-02T07:09:55","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T11:09:55","slug":"149-xu-zhiyong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/149-xu-zhiyong","title":{"rendered":"149. XU ZHIYONG"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Xu<\/a>Pen name<\/em><\/strong>\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 \u00a0Male<\/p>\n

Birth date<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1973-03-02<\/p>\n

Birth place<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Minquan County, Shangqiu City, Henan Province<\/p>\n

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

Education<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 LLB and MA at Lanzhou University, JD at Beijing University<\/p>\n

Profession<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lecturer of Beijing Posts and Telecommunications University, head of the NGO Open \u00a0 Constitution Initiative (ICPC honorary member)<\/p>\n

Date of arrest<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2013-07-16 (detained), 2013-08-22 (arrested 1st); 2020-02-15 (designated residencial surveillance, 2nd), 2020-06-19 (arrest)<\/p>\n

Organ of arrest<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Public Security Bureau of Beijing City (1st); Public Security Bureau of Linxi City, Shandong Province (2nd)<\/p>\n

Cause of arrest<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Calling for officials to disclose property and initiating the New Citizens’ Movement in \u00a0China (1st); online dissident posts, including an open letter of advising President Xi Jinping to resign (2nd)<\/p>\n

Charge<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Assembling a crowd to disrupt order in public places (1st); suspecionoof inciting subversion of state power (2nd)<\/p>\n

Date of sentence<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2014-01-22 (hearing), 2014-01-26(verdict), 2014-04-11(1st); not yet (2nd)<\/p>\n

Organ of sentence<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 No. 1 Intermediate People’s Court of Beijing City, Beijing (appeal, 1st); not yet (2nd)<\/p>\n

Sentence<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 4 years imprisonment (1st); not yet (2nd)<\/p>\n

Defender<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Lawyer ZHANG Qingfang\u00a0(1st); lawyers LIANG Xiaojun and MA Wei (2nd)<\/p>\n

Place of jail<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 No. 3 Detention Center of Beijing City \u00a0(1st); unknown location (residencial surveillance, 2nd), Detention Center of Linshu County, Shandong Province (since his arrest on 2020-06-19)<\/p>\n

Situation in jail<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 OK \u00a0(1st);\u00a0unknown (2nd)<\/p>\n

Date of release<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2017-07-15 \u00a0(1st); not yet (2nd)<\/p>\n

Family contact<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 CUI Zheng(wife); Ms. Xu (sister)<\/p>\n

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

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

Current Status<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0main case<\/p>\n

Reference<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>
\nhttps:\/\/mainichi.jp\/english\/articles\/20200702\/p2g\/00m\/0in\/035000c<\/a><\/span>
\nhttps:\/\/pen.org\/press-release\/pen-america-condemns-formal-arrest-of-writer-and-civil-rights-advocate-xu-zhiyong\/<\/a><\/span>
\nhttps:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2020\/02\/activist-xu-zhiyong-detained-after-50-days-in-hiding\/<\/a><\/span>
\nhttps:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Xu_Zhiyong<\/a><\/span>
\nhttp:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-china-25900272 <\/a><\/span>
\nhttp:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-china-26984386<\/a><\/span>
\nhttps:\/\/chinachange.org\/tag\/xu-zhiyong\/<\/a><\/span>
\nhttps:\/\/www.rienner.com\/title\/To_Build_a_Free_China_A_Citizen_s_Journey<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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