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  Name                      HE Depu (ÖÐÎÄ×ÊÁÏ)

  Pen name

Sex Male

Birth date 1956-10-28

Birth place Beijing City

Resident place Beijing City

Education Secondary school

Profession Freelance writer; formal worker at Beijing Academy of Social Secience

Date of arrest 2002-11-14 (detained) / 2003-01-30 (arrested)

Cause of arrest Leading figure of Chinese Democracy PartyInternet writing and publishing

dissident articles (28)Writing and publishing on internet an open letter for

political reform to 16th Congress of CCP.

Charge Inciting subversion of the state power

Date of sentence 2003-11-06 (Beijing Intermediate People's Court), 2003-12- 20appeal

Sentence 8 years imprisonment and 2 years deprivation of political rights

Place of jail Beijing No 2 Prison, Postbox: 2357, Chaoyang District, 100023 Beijing

Situation in jail Health worsening and seriously tortured

Date of release 2010-11-13 (?)

Defender Lawyers Yan Ruyu and Fu Kexin

Family contact Jia Jianying (wife)Hospital Library, Changchun Street 45, Xuanwu District,

Beijing

Case adopted by ICPC

Current Status Main case

Seeking the donation to the family

  References              http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=8475

                                 http://www.chinesenewsweek.com/181/ChinaAffairs/18941.html (Chinese)

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

 

 Compiled by WiPC of Independent Chinese PEN Centre (11/2004) 32

Last update: November 3, 2004

 


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