{"id":4778,"date":"2015-02-22T17:46:50","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T22:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=4778"},"modified":"2015-02-22T17:50:55","modified_gmt":"2015-02-22T22:50:55","slug":"famous-democracy-activist-zhao-changqing-sent-back-to-shaanxi-province-jail-to-serve-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/famous-democracy-activist-zhao-changqing-sent-back-to-shaanxi-province-jail-to-serve-sentence","title":{"rendered":"Famous democracy activist Zhao Changqing sent back to Shaanxi Province jail to serve sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2015\/02\/201501292354china1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4779\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2015\/02\/201501292354china1-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"201501292354china1\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2015\/02\/201501292354china1-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2015\/02\/201501292354china1.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Boxun\u2019s reporter has learned that Yang County, Shangluo City, Shaanxi Province renowned democracy activist Zhao Changqing has now probably been repatriated to a Shaanxi Province jail to serve out his sentence.<!--more--> Zhao Changqing\u2019s wife Liu Xiaodong told Boxun\u2019s reporter that on January 23, 2015 she went to the detention center for repatriating criminals outside Beijing to see Zhao Changqing. Zhao Changqing told her that perhaps on Tuesday January 27, 2015 he would be returned to Shaanxi Province. If he\u2019s not sent back before Chinese New Year, he surely won\u2019t still be in Beijing in March.<\/p>\n<p>This is Zhao Changqing\u2019s fifth time in jail. His first time was the result of participating in the spring 1989 democracy protests. He spent June-September, 1989 in Beijing\u2019s Qincheng Prison. The second time was in 1997 for participating in Hanzhong Municipal People\u2019s Congress elections. He was charged with \u201cinciting subversion of state power\u201d and sentenced to three years and held in Hanzhong prison. The third time was in 2002, for organizing support of US-based dissident Yang Jianli who\u2019d returned to China on a false passport. He was charged with the crime of \u201cinciting anger against the state\u201d and sentenced to five years in prison in Shaanxi\u2019s Weinan Prison. The fourth time in jail was for celebrating Liu Xiaobo winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Zhao Changqing was charged with \u201cunlawful assembly and disturbing social order,\u201d administratively detained for eight days and held in Beijing\u2019s Eastern District detention center.<\/p>\n<p>On April 17, 2013, due to his participation in the New Citizens\u2019 Movement, Zhao Changqing was criminally detained on suspicion of the crime of \u201cunlawful assembly.\u201d On May 24, 2013, he was formally arrested for the crime of \u201cillegal assembly.\u201d In 2014, Zhao Changqing was arrested for \u201cincting a mob to disturb public order\u201d and sentenced by Beijing\u2019s Haidian court to two months and six days in jail. On June 27, 2014, the Beijing First Intermediate People\u2019s Court upheld the decision.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.boxun.com\/2015\/02\/11\/famous-democracy-activist-zhao-changqing-sent-back-to-shaanxi-province-jail-to-serve-sentence\/\">For detail please visit here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boxun\u2019s reporter has learned that Yang C &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/famous-democracy-activist-zhao-changqing-sent-back-to-shaanxi-province-jail-to-serve-sentence\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,45],"tags":[512],"views":4753,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4778"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4785,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4778\/revisions\/4785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}