Writers in Prison (China)

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  Name                      WU Shishen (中文资料)

  Pen name

Sex Male

Birth date 1962

Birth place Zhenhai County, Zhejiang Province

Resident place Beijing City

Education University

Profession Editor for the domestic news department of Xinhua news agency

（Honorary member of Norwegian, Danish and German PEN centers）

Date of arrest 1992-11-06

Cause of arrest Giving Hong Kong reporter an advance copy of General Secretary Jiang Zemin's

speech to 14th Congress of CCP

Charge Illegally providing with state secrets overseas

Date of sentence 1993-08-30 (Beijing Intermediate People's Court), 1993-10-05 (appeal)

Sentence life imprisonment and deprivation of political rights (reduced to 12 years and 8

Place of jail Beijing No 2 Prison, Postbox: 2357, Chaoyang District, 100023 Beijing

Situation in jail OK

Date of release 2005-07-05 (?)

Defender unknown

Family contact unknown

Case adopted by Norwegian, Danish and German PEN centers

Current Status unknown

  References              http://www.amnesty.org/ailib/intcam/china/china96/secret/secret5.htm

                                 http://law.hotoa.com.cn/lawv2/5/192-1/D4EA7A72-F327-4765-9A93-5555CA84A6C8.html (Chinese)

                                 http://www.chinalawedu.com/news/2004_4%5C10%5C1656313513.htm

Compiled by WiPC of Independent Chinese PEN Centre (11/2004)  25

Last update: November 3, 2004