Writers in Prison (China)

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  Name                      JIANG Lijun (中文资料)

  Pen name

  Sex                          Male

  Birth date                1965

  Birth place

  Resident place         Tieling City, Liaoning Province

  Education

  Profession               Owner of a provite company and freelance writer

  Date of arrest          2002-11-06(detained)/2003-12-14 (arrested)

  Cause of arrest        Internet writing and publishing dissident articles

  Charge                    Inciting subversion of the state power

  Date of sentence      2003-11-28 (No.2 Intermediate People's Court of Beijing )

  Sentence                  4 years imprisonment and 1 year deprivation of political rights

  Place of jail             Jinzhou Prison, Nanshan Road 86, Taihe District, 121013 Jinzhou City,

  Situation in jail        unknown

  Defender                 Lawyer Mo Shaoping

  Family contact        Yan Lina (wife)

  Case adopted by      ICPC

  Current Status         Main case

                                 Having contact with the family

  References              http://www.ifex.org/fr/content/view/full/55336/

                                 http://www.peacehall.com/news/gb/china/2003/11/200311290248.shtml (Chinese)

 Compiled by WiPC of Independent Chinese PEN Centre (11/2004) 27

Last update: November 3, 2004