{"id":7928,"date":"2019-03-07T00:02:22","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T05:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=7928"},"modified":"2019-03-07T10:00:29","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T15:00:29","slug":"230-jiang-tianyong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/230-jiang-tianyong","title":{"rendered":"230. JIANG TIANYONG (released)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"jiang-tianyong\"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 1971-05-19<\/p>\n

Birth place<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Luoshan County,\u00a0Henan Province<\/p>\n

Resident place<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Zhengzhou City, Henan Province<\/p>\n

Education<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 University graduate<\/p>\n

Profession<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Freelance writer, legal activist, former lawyer (licence revoked for his human rights activism in 2009) (ICPC honorary member)<\/p>\n

Date of arrest<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2016-11-22 (administrative detention for 9 days), 2016-12-01 (residential surveillance in a designated location), 2017-05-31 (arrested)<\/p>\n

Organ of arrest<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Changsha Railway Public Security Department of Guangzhou Railway Bureau (administrative detention), Direct Branch of Public Security Bureau\u00a0of Changsha City (residential surveillance), Public Security Bureau\u00a0of Changsha City (arrest), Hunan Province<\/p>\n

Cause of arrest<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 alleged as illegally holding a number of state secrets documents, having connections with overseas institutions, organizations and individuals for illegally supplying state secrets,\u00a0accepting long-term foreign funds,\u00a0undertaking some tasks as a citizen agent, intervening in some sensitive cases,\u00a0 fabricating \u00a0rumors on the Internet, inciting the petitioners and client family members against state organs, disturbing\u00a0social order, and thus resulting in adverse social impacts.<\/p>\n

Charge<\/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 Inciting subversion of state power<\/p>\n

Date of sentence<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2017-08-22 (hearing), 2017-11-21 (verdict)<\/p>\n

Organ of sentence<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 Intermediate People’s Court of Changsha City, Hunan Province<\/p>\n

Sentence\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>two years imprisonment, three years deprivation of political rights<\/p>\n

Defender<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Lawyers QIN Chenshou, CHEN Jinxue and ZHANG Lei(all dismissed), lawers assigned by the court<\/p>\n

Place of jail\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>No. 1 Detention Center of Changsha City (since 31 May 2017), No 2 Prison of Hunan Province (since\u00a028\u00a0April 2018)<\/p>\n

Situation in jail\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>tortured and forced to confess<\/p>\n

Date of release\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>2019-02-28<\/p>\n

Family contact<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0JIN Bianling\u00a0(wife),\u00a0JIANG Lianghou (father)<\/p>\n

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

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

Current Status<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Released on 2019-02-28 but still hold under residential surveillance in a designated location<\/p>\n

\u00a0References<\/em><\/strong>
\nhttps:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/chinese-rights-lawyer-jiang-tianyong-allowed-home-visit-still-not-free<\/a><\/span>
\nhttps:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-china-47406389<\/a><\/span>
\nhttps:\/\/www.nchrd.org\/2017\/02\/jiang-tianyong\/<\/a><\/span>
\nhttps:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/nov\/21\/chinese-human-rights-lawyer-jiang-tianyong-jailed<\/a><\/span>
\n https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/another-chinese-human-rights-lawyer-is-going-to-jail\/2017\/11\/20\/5af09cbc-ce5d-11e7-8447-3d80b84bebad_story.html<\/a><\/span>
\nhttp:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/uk-china-rights-idUKKBN14C0TQ<\/a><\/span>
\nhttp:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/china-to-try-one-rights-lawyer-as-european-diplomats-visit-family-of-another<\/a><\/span>
\nhttp:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/12\/16\/world\/asia\/jiang-tianyong-china.html<\/a><\/span>
\nhttp:\/\/www.rfa.org\/english\/news\/china\/lawyer-arrest-12162016142651.html<\/a><\/span>
\nhttps:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jiang_Tianyong<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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