Writers in Prison (China)

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  Name                      WANG Bingzhang (中文资料)

  Pen name                LOU Kaixin, QI Xin

  Sex                          Male

  Birth date                1947-12-30

  Birth place              Foucheng County, Hebei Province

  Resident place         Permanent resident in USA

  Education                Graduated from Beijing Medical University, 1971;Ph.D.  in pathology at

                                 McGill University in Canada, 1982

  Profession               Founder of  "China Spring" magazine, Advicer of Overseas Branch of 

                                 Chinese Democracy Party

  Date of arrest          2002-07-16 (detained) / 2002-12-05 (arrested)

  Cause of arrest        kidnapped in Vietnam by a group of strangers and taken to China to be

                                 arrested by Chinese police

  Charge                    Espionage and and leading terrorist organization

  Date of sentence      2003-02-10(Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court), 2003-02-28 (appeal)

  Sentence                  Life imprisonment

  Place of jail             Beijiang Prison, Shaoguan City, Guangdong Provice

  Situation in jail        Seriously sick

  Defender                 Lawyers Wen Chao and Yang Min

  Family contact        Wang Guifang (mother),  Release of Dr. Bingzhang Wang Society, 2515

                                 Burrard Street, Suite 102, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6J 3J

  Case adopted by      Release of Dr. Bingzhang Wang Society

  Current Status         unknown

  References              http://www.ishr.org/appeals/bg_wang_bingzhang.htm

                                 http://wangbingzhang.us/main/index_en.htm

                                 http://www.secretchina.com/news/articles/3/4/9/39263.html (Chinese)

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

 Compiled by WiPC of Independent Chinese PEN Centre (11/2004) 35

Last update: November 3, 2004