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  Name                      XU Guang (中文资料)

  Pen name

Sex Male

Birth date 1968

Birth place Fuyang City, Zhejiang Province

Resident place Fuyang City, Zhejiang Province

Education B. Sc. in Biology at Hangzhou University (now Zhejiang University), 1990

Profession Scientist at Fuyang Environmental Protection Monitoring Center,

and editor of Opposition Party

Date of arrest 1999-05(detained) / 1999-09-20(arrested)

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 1999-11-09(Hangzhou Intermediate People's Court), 1999-12-18 (appeal)

Sentence 5 years imprisonment

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

Situation in jail unknown

Date of release 2004-09-19

Defender unknown

Family contact HUANG Xiaohang (wife)

Case adopted by ICPC

Current Status Release on expiry on 2004-09-19

（Therefore the case closed）

ICPC keeping contact

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

                                 http://asiademo.org/author/xuguang.htm (Chinese)

                                 http://www.alliance.org.hk/records/2799.HTM (Chinese)

 Compiled by WiPC of Independent Chinese PEN Centre (11/2004) 44

Last update: November 3, 2004