Writers in Prison (China)

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  Name                      LIU Jingsheng (中文资料)

  Pen name

Sex Male

Birth date 1954

Birth place Beijing City

Resident place Beijing City

Education Middle school

Profession Factory worker， and former editor of Tansuo (Explorations) magazine

（Honorary Member of English, Swedish, New Zealand, German, American and

Date of arrest 1992-05-28

Cause of arrest Organising Liberal Democratic Party of China and Free Labour Union of China

with Hu Shigeng and Kang Yuchun，and distributing pro-democracy leaflets

Charge Organising and leading counter-revolutionary group andcounter-revolutionary

propaganda instigation

Date of sentence 1994-12-16 (Beijing Intermediate People's Court), 1995-06-14 (appeal)

Sentence 15 years imprisonment and 4 years deprivation of political rights （reduced by 2

Place of jail Beijing No.1 Prison , Postbox: 219, 102609 Daxing District, Beijing

Situation in jail OK

Date of release 2004-11-27

Defender Unknown

Family contact Jin Yanming （wife）, Zhongguan Village A21-203, Haidian District, Beijing

Tel: 0086-10-62564454, 0086-13683324905(m)

Case adopted by ICPC, English, Swedish, New Zealand, German, American and Netherlands PEN

Current Status Release on expiry of the sentence on 2004-11-27

(Case therefore closed)

ICPC keeping contact

References              http://www.pen.org/freedom/hm/liu.htm

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

                                 http://www.asiatimes-chinese.com/2004/01/0102bj.htm (Chinese)

Compiled by WiPC of Independent Chinese PEN Centre (11/2004)  23

Last update: November 3, 2004