Writers in Prison (China)

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  Name                      CHEN Yanbin (中文资料)

  Pen name Yanlin

Sex Male

Birth date 1964

Birth place Hunan Province

Resident place Beijing City

Education Univerity student

Profession Student at Northern Jiaotong University, Beijing, and co-editor of Tieliu (Iron

Currents)

Date of arrest 1990-09-24

Cause of arrest Founding the peaceful "Chinese Revolutionary Democratic Front" and publishing

an magazine Tieliu (Iron Currents)

Charge Oranising and leading counter-revolutionary group, and counter-revolutionary

propaganda instigation

Date of sentence 1991-03-05 (Beijing Intermediate People's Court)

Sentence 15 years imprisonment (later reduced by 6 months) and 4 years deprivation of

Place of jail Beijing No.1 Prison , Postbox: 219, 102609 Daxing District, Beijing

Situation in jail unknown

Date of release 2005-03-23(?)

Defender unknown

Family contact Mother Yuan

Case adopted by Finnish, German PEN centers, ICPC

Current Status Main case

References              http://www.cpj.org/attacks02/china_imprisoned_02.html

                                 http://bjzc.org/bjs/zc/109/91(Chinese)

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Last update: November 3, 2004