Writers in Prison (China)

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  Name                      WANG Youcai (中文资料)

  Pen name

  Sex                          Male

  Birth date                1966-06-29

  Birth place              Dunan County, Zhejiang Province

  Resident place         Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province

  Education                Graduate Study on physics at Beijing University

  Profession               Freelance writer and former engineer

  Date of arrest          1998-07-10(detained) /1998-11-30(arrested)

  Cause of arrest        Founding and leading Chinese Democracy Party; writing and e-mailing

                                 his party's documents overseas

  Charge                    Subversion of the state power

  Date of sentence      1998-12-21 (Hangzhou Intermediate People's Court)

  Sentence                  11 years imprisonment and 3 years deprivation of political rights

  Place of jail             Zhejiang No. 1 Prison, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province

  Situation in jail        Seriously ill

  Defender                 Lawyer Wang Wenjiang (not able to be at court)

  Family contact        Hu Jiangxia (wife)

  Case adopted by      Overseas branch of  Chinese Democracy Party

  Current Status         Released to USA on medical parole on 2004-03-04,

                                 (Therefore the case closed)

  References              http://www.wangyoucai.org/chronology.htm

                                 http://alliance.org.hk/records/608.HTM (Chinese)

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

                                 http://jhcdp.portland.co.uk/histry/histry/2000/10/08/20001008034716.htm

 Compiled by WiPC of Independent Chinese PEN Centre (11/2004) 33

Last update: November 3, 2004