Writers in Prison (China)

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  Name                      WU Yilong (中文资料)

  Pen name

  Sex                          Male

  Birth date                1964-05-01

  Birth place              Tongcheng, Anhui Provice

  Resident place         Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province

  Education                Master student

                                 B.A. in literature, Anhui University

  Profession               Master student at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, former teacher

  Date of arrest          1999-09-15

  Cause of arrest        Founding the magazine of Opposyition Party for Chinese Democratic

                                 Party,distributing its artciles on internet, and communicating with

                                 overseas organization via e-mails

  Charge                    Subversion of the state power

  Date of sentence      1999-11-08  (Hangzhou Intermediate People's Court), 1999-12-18

(appeal)

  Sentence                  11 years imprisonmentand and 3 year deprivation of political rights

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

  Situation in jail        Unknown

  Defender                 Self  (plea of not guilty)

  Family contact        Shan Chengfeng (ex-wife)

  Case adopted by      Overseas branch of Chinese Democracy Party

  Current Status         unknown

  References              http://www.democracy.org.hk/EN/nov1999/mainland_05.htm

                                 http://www.alliance.org.hk/records/2749.HTM  (Chinese)

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

                                 http://www.boxun.com/my-cgi/post/display_all.cgi?cat=wyl  (Chinese)

Compiled by WiPC of Independent Chinese PEN Centre (11/2004)  14

Last update: November 3, 2004