{"id":8337,"date":"2020-09-25T22:51:13","date_gmt":"2020-09-26T02:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=8337"},"modified":"2020-09-29T08:23:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T12:23:04","slug":"231-xu-lin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/231-xu-lin","title":{"rendered":"231. XU Lin (released)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"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\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 1964-04-09<\/p>\n

Birth place<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Hunan Province<\/p>\n

Resident place<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Nansha District, Guangzhou City,\u00a0Guangdong Province<\/p>\n

Education<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Graduated from Zhuzhou Institute of Technology, 1985<\/p>\n

Profession<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Architect, freelance writer and singer-songwriter (ICPC member)<\/p>\n

Date of arrest<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2017-09-26 (detained), \u00a02017-11-02 (arrested)<\/p>\n

Organ of arrest<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nansha District Branch of Public Security Bureau of Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province<\/p>\n

Cause of arrest<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Internet writing and publishing dissident articles, poems and songs about social injustices, such as forced eviction, the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, and, most recently, the death of Liu Xiaobo, etc.<\/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\u00a0\u00a0Picking quarrels and provoking trouble.<\/p>\n

Date of sentence<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2018-07-27 (hearing)\uff0c2018-12-07 (verdict), 2019-05-14 (appeal)<\/p>\n

Organ of sentence<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 People’s Court of Nansha District,\u00a0Intermediate People’s Court of Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province (appeal)<\/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\u00a0Three years imprisonment<\/p>\n

Defender<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lawyers\u00a0LIN Qilei\u00a0and LIU Hao<\/p>\n

Place of jail<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Detention Center\u00a0of Nansha District,\u00a0Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province<\/p>\n

Situation in jail<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hospitalised for breast hyperplasia but application for medical parole rejected<\/span><\/p>\n

Date of release\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>2020-09-25 (?)<\/p>\n

Family contact\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>WANG Zilan (wife)<\/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\u00a0Main case<\/p>\n

References<\/em><\/strong>
\nhttps:\/\/www.rfa.org\/english\/news\/china\/china-jails-guangdong-musician-12072018114044.html<\/a><\/span>
\nhttp:\/\/www.asianews.it\/news-en\/Xu-Lin-on-trial-for-singing-for-Liu-Xiaobo-44539.html<\/a><\/span>
\nhttps:\/\/www.rfa.org\/english\/news\/china\/musician-07272018115530.html<\/a><\/span>
\nhttp:\/\/www.rsf.org\/article.php3?id_article=12562<\/a><\/span>
\nhttps:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/documents\/ASA17\/7336\/2017\/en\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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