Writers in Prison (China)

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  Name                      CHENG Yizhong (中文资料)

  Pen name

  Sex                          Male

  Birth date                1965-04

  Birth place              Anqing City, Anhui Province

  Resident place         Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province

  Education                B.A in Chinese Literature at Zhongshan University, 1989

  Profession               Former Editor-in-Chief of Nanfang Dushi Bao (Southern Metropolis

                                 News) and Editor-in-Chief of Xinjing Bao (New Beijing News)

  Date of arrest          2004-03-19(detained),2004-04-01(arrested)

  Cause of arrest        Publishing on Southern Metropolis News a number of publishing stories

                                 that embarrass local authorities, especially the reports on SARS cases

                                  and the case of Sun Zhigang tortureed to death

  Charge                    Suspected for orruption

  Date of sentence      None

  Sentence                  None

  Place of jail             Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province

  Situation in jail        Unknown

  Defender                 Lawyer Zhang Xinshui

  Family contact        Chen Junying (wife)

  Case adopted by      ICPC, Ghanaian PEN

  Current Status         released on 2004-08-27

                                 (Therefore the case closed)

  References              http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A48410-2004Apr3?language=printer

                                 http://www.cpj.org/protests/04ltrs/China09apr04pl.html

                                 http://www.yannan.cn/data/detail.php?id=3114(Chinese)

 Compiled by WiPC of Independent Chinese PEN Centre (11/2004) 37

Last update: November 3, 2004