Writers in Prison (China)

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  Name                      HUANG Qi (中文资料)

  Pen name                Nanbo

  Sex                          Male

  Birth date                1963-04-07

  Birth place              Neijiang City, Sichuan Province

  Resident place         Chengdu City, Sichuan Province

  Education                University

  Profession               Creator and webmaster of Tian Wang Search Service for Missing Persons with a

                                 website www.6-4tianwang.com

  Date of arrest          2000-06-05 (detained) / 2000-07-12 (arrested)

  Cause of arrest        Publishing online articles on his site on the June 1989 Tiananmen Square

                                 massacre, written by dissidents living abroad.

  Charge                    Inciting subversion of the state power

  Date of sentence      2003-02-22  (Chengdu Intermediate People's Court), 2003-05-09 (appeal)

  Sentence                  5 years imprisonment and 1 year deprivation of political rights

  Place of jail             Sichuan No. 1 Prison, Nanchong City, Sichuan Province

  Situation in jail        Ever tortured andput in solitary confinement after visit from Reporters

                                 Without Borders; No persission for family visit after Oct. 2003.

  Defender                 Lawyers Gao Xiaoping and Fan Jun

  Family contact        Zeng Li (wife)

  Case adopted by      ICPC

  Current Status         Main case

                                 Seeking the donation to the family

  References              http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=62

                                 http://rsf.fr/article.php3?id_article=8740

                                 http://www.cecc.gov/pages/virtualAcad/exp/exphuangqidecision.php  (Chinese)

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

Compiled by WiPC of Independent Chinese PEN Centre (11/2004)  13

Last update: November 3, 2004