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Yang, known by his pen name Yang Tianshui, was detained along with a friend in Nanjing, eastern China. He was tried on charges of subverting state power and, on May 17, 2006, the Zhenjiang Intermediate People’s Court sentenced him to 12 years in prison. Yang was a well-known writer and member of the Independent Chinese…
Huang, a columnist for the U.S.-based website Boxun News, was arrested in Jiangsu province, and his family was not notified of his arrest for more than three months. On September 27, 2004, the Changzhou Intermediate People’s Court sentenced him to 12 years in prison on charges of “subversion of state authority,” along with four years’…
Jiang, a freelance journalist, was arrested after he published a number of articles in the Hong Kong-based magazine Qianshao (Frontline), a Chinese-language monthly focusing on mainland affairs. The stories exposed corruption scandals in northeastern China. Jiang wrote the Qianshao articles, which were published between June and September 1999, under various pen names. His coverage exposed…
Wu, an organizer for the banned China Democracy Party (CDP), was detained by police in Guangzhou on April 26, 1999. In June, near the 10th anniversary of the brutal crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square, authorities detained CDP activist Mao. Zhu and Xu Guang, also leading CDP activists, were detained in September. The four…
Police arrested Jiang in the late evening and searched his home, seizing his computer, several documents, and articles he had written for Beijing zhi Chun (Beijing Spring), a New York-based pro-democracy publication. The arrest came after Jiang published a series of essays and open letters related to the 10th anniversary of the government’s violent suppression…
Tengzhou police arrested Qi and charged him with fraud and extortion. He was sentenced initially to four years in prison on May 13, 2008, but new charges and a longer sentence was added the year he was due to be released. The arrest occurred about a week after police detained Qi’s colleague, Ma Shiping, a…
Wang, publisher of two Chinese-language magazines in Hong Kong—New-Way Monthly and Multiple Face—and Guo Zhongxiao, a reporter for the magazines, were detained by police in the southern city of Shenzhen on May 30, 2014, and accused of operating an illegal publication and suspicion of illegal business operations. Liu Haitao, an editorial assistant at the magazines, was detained…
Chinese writer Chen Shuqing is serving a sentence of 10 years and six months on charges of subverting state power. Hangzhou police arrested Chen in September 2014. Chen, a freelance writer and member of the Democracy Party of China and the Independent Chinese PEN Center, was detained on September 11, 2014, in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province,…
Chinese political cartoonist Jiang Yefei is serving a sentence of six years and six months in prison on charges of “inciting subversion of state power,” and “illegally crossing a national border.” Thai authorities extradited Jiang to China in November 2015, where he was then held in pretrial detention for two years and eight months. Jiang…
Police arrested Huang Qi, publisher of the human rights news website 64 Tianwang, in November 2016. He is serving a 12-year sentence on accusations of "deliberately leaking state secrets" and "illegally providing state secrets to foreign countries." Police detained Huang outside his apartment complex in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province, on November 28, 2016,…