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  Name                      Hada (中文资料)

 Pen name

Sex Male

Birth date 1955-02-13

Birth place Horchin Right Wing Front Banner, Inner Mongolia

Resident place Hohhot City,Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region

Education B. A. in Mongolian language and Literature at the Inner Mongolian Teacher's

College for Nationalities, 1983; M.A. in Philosophy at Inner Mongolian Teacher's

Profession Owner of Mongolian Academic Bookstore; founder and editor-in-chief of The

Voice of the Southern Mongolia（Honorary member of PEN Canada）

Date of arrest 1995-12-10

Cause of arrest Founding and charing the Southern Mongolian Democracy Alliance (SMDA),

founding and publishing an underground journal, The Voice of the Southern

Mongolia

Charge Inciting separatism and espionage

Date of sentence 1996-12-06 (Hohhot Intermediate People's Court, Inner Mongolia )

Sentence 15 years imprisonment and 4 years deprivation of political rights

Place of jail No. 4 prison of Inner Mongolia, Chi Feng (Ulaan-Hada) City

Situation in jail Serious health problems with stomach ulcer, coronary heart disease and

rheumarthritis; seriously tortured several times.

Date of release 2010-12-09 (?)

Defender unknown

Family contact Xinna (wife)

Case adopted by PEN Canada

Current Status Under investigation

  References              http://www.innermongolia.org/english/biography_of_hada.htm

                                 http://web.amnesty.org/appeals/index/chn-011197-wwa-eng

                                 http://www.yangjianli.com/digest/zhangsanyiyan20031112f.htm (in Chinese)

 Compiled by WiPC of Independent Chinese PEN Centre (11/2004) 45

Last update: November 3, 2004