Writers in Prison (China)

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  Name                      CHEN Shaowen (中文资料)

  Pen name

  Sex                          Male

  Birth date                1962-12-25

 Birth place

  Resident place         Lianyuan City, Hunan Province

  Education

  Profession               Freelance writer; former policeman and unemployed worker of Lianyuan

                                 City's Hardware Co.

  Date of arrest          2002-08-06 (detained) / 2002-09- (arrested)

  Cause of arrest        Internet writing and publishing articles (more than 40) of criticizing the

                                 authorities forthe unemployment, social injustice and legal abuse

  Charge                    Suspicion for inciting subversion of the state power

  Date of sentence      unknown

  Sentence                  unknown

  Place of jail             Hunan Province

  Situation in jail        never got permission for family visit

  Defender                 unknown

  Family contact        unknown

  Case adopted by

  Current Status         To contact the family

  References              http://www.cpj.org/protests/02ltrs/China24sept02pl.html

                                 http://www.asiademo.org/gb/author/chenshaowen.htm  (Chinese)

                                 http://www.boxun.com/my-cgi/post/display_all.cgi?cat=zsw (Chinese)

Compiled by WiPC of Independent Chinese PEN Centre (11/2004)  15

Last update: November 3, 2004