{"id":3741,"date":"2015-12-22T23:21:32","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T04:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=3741"},"modified":"2015-12-23T04:20:22","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T09:20:22","slug":"156-pu-zhiqiang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/156-pu-zhiqiang","title":{"rendered":"156. PU ZHIQIANG (released)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Pu<\/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 Male<\/p>\n

Birth date<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1965-01-17<\/p>\n

Birth place<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Luan County, Tangshan City, Hebei 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 \u00a0BA \u00a0at Tianjin Nankai University, LLM at China University of Political Science and Law<\/p>\n

Profession<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lawyer and managing partner of Beijing Huayi Law Firm (ICPC honorary member)<\/p>\n

Date of arrest<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 2014-05-04 (subpoenaed), 2014-05-06 (detained), 2014-06-13 (arrested)<\/p>\n

Organ of arrest<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Public Security Bureau of Haidian District, Beijing City<\/p>\n

Cause of arrest<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Attending memorial seminar of 4th<\/sup> \u00a0June 1989 on 2014-05-03 in Beijing, posting critical comments on Weibo, China’s version of Twitter, and providing media with information from\u00a0his\u00a0investigation of\u00a0corruptions<\/p>\n

Charge<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Suspicion of creating disturbances, illegal access to citizens’ personal information, inciting to split the country and inciting ethnic hatred<\/p>\n

Date of sentence<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a02015-12-14 (hearing), 2015-12-22 (verdict)<\/p>\n

Organ of sentence<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 The\u00a0Second Intermediate People’s Court of Beijing<\/wbr>\u00a0City<\/p>\n

Sentence<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Three years in imprisonment, with a three-year\u00a0suspension<\/p>\n

Defender<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Lawyers ZHANG Sizhi (sick, and replaced by Mo), QU Zhenhong (arrested) , LI Jin (replaced by Gao), GAO Guangqing and MO Shaoping<\/p>\n

Place of jail<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0No. 1 Detention Center of Beijing City<\/p>\n

Situation in jail<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Suffering from severe diabetes<\/p>\n

Date of release\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>2015-12-22 (for residential surveillance)<\/p>\n

Family contact \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>MENG Qun (wife)<\/p>\n

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

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

Current Status<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Released on 2015-12-22 due to suspension of his sentence for residential surveillance.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Reference<\/em><\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-china-35157525<\/a><\/span>
\nhttp:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/pu-zhiqiang-chinese-human-rights-lawyer-has-faced-inhuman-treatment-detention-wife-1763326<\/a><\/span>
\nhttp:\/\/cn.nytimes.com\/china\/20140507\/c07lawyer\/<\/a><\/span>
\nhttp:\/\/zh.wikipedia.org\/zh-cn\/%E6%B5%A6%E5%BF%97%E5%BC%BA<\/a>\u00a0(Chinese)<\/span><\/span>
\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/puzhiqiang<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0(Chinese)<\/span><\/span>
\nhttp:\/\/www.i11185.cn\/magazine\/article.jsp?aid=13181&issueid=3&issn=121-4564<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0(Chinese)<\/span><\/span>
\nhttp:\/\/news.qq.com\/a\/20140506\/056587.htm<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0(Chinese)<\/span><\/span>
\nhttp:\/\/www.chinanews.com\/fz\/2014\/06-13\/6279534.shtml<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0(Chinese)<\/span><\/span>
\nhttp:\/\/www.rfa.org\/mandarin\/yataibaodao\/renquanfazhi\/ql1-11242014100852.html<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0(Chinese)<\/span><\/span>
\nhttp:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/blog\/archives\/16615<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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