Writers in Prison (China)

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  Name                      TAO Haidong (中文资料)

  Pen name Yuzhixin

Sex Male

Birth date 1957-05-03

Birth place Huaiyang City, Anhui Province

Resident place Urumqi City, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region

Education Graduated from Technical Middel School

Profession Freelance writer

Date of arrest 2002-07-09

Cause of arrest Posting his articles and books on both Chinese and overseas websites of predicting

the collapse of China's economy and criticising the leaders

Charge Inciting subversion of the state power

Date of sentence uncertain, between 2003-01-08 and 2003-02-16 (Urumqi Intermediate People's

Sentence 7 years imprisonment and 3 years deprivation of political rights

Place of jail Changji Prison, Changji City, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region

Situation in jail OK

Date of release 2009-07-08(?)

Defender unknown

Family contact Brother Tao Haiying, Tel：0086-996-228858，0086-13031239222(m)

Case adopted by ICPC

Current Status Main case

Seeking the donation to the family

References              http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/33614/

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

                                 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/chinese/news/newsid_2768000/27688711.stm  (Chinese)

Compiled by WiPC of Independent Chinese PEN Centre (11/2004)  26

Last update: November 3, 2004