Writers in Prison (China)

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  Name                      HU Shigen (中文资料)

 Pen name

Sex Male

Birth date 1954-09-03

Birth place Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province

Resident place Beijing

Education M. A. in Chinese Literature at Beijing University (1986)

Profession Lecturer at Beijing Language Institute (now Beijing Language and Culture

University)

Date of arrest 1992-05-27 (detained) / 1992-09-27(arrested)

Cause of arrest Founding Liberal Democratic Party of China (LDPC)and Free Labour Union of

China，and drafting documents for LDPC and articles for commemoration of

June-fourth victims in 1989

Charge Organising and leading counter-revolutionary group and counter-revolutionary

propaganda instigation

Date of sentence 1994-12-16 (Hohhot Intermediate People's Court, Inner Mongolia ), 1995-06-14

Sentence 20 years imprisonment and 5 years deprivation of political rights

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

Situation in jail Under secondary restriction; tortured to have a brocken and deformed finger of his

right hand and bad health in liver, heart, stomach and ears，and suffering from

Date of release 2012-05-26 (?)

Defender Self (plea of not guilty)

Family contact Hu Fengyun (elder sister), Tel: 0086-13807912885

Hu Shuigeng (younger brother), Tel: 0086-13879681705

Case adopted by ICPC, England PEN

Current Status Main case

Seeking the donation to the family

  References              http://www.amnesty.org/ailib/intcam/china/china96/report/cc2.htm

                                 http://www.secretchina.com/news/articles/2/8/7/22560.html  (Chinese)

                                 http://bjzc.org/bjs/bc/06/103 (Chinese)

                                 http://www.laojiao.org/64/article0063.html  (Chinese)

 Compiled by WiPC of Independent Chinese PEN Centre (11/2004) 46

Last update: November 3, 2004