Writers in Prison (China)

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  Name                      YANG Jianli (中文资料)

  Pen name

  Sex                          Male

  Birth date                1963-07-15

  Birth place              Cangshan County, Shandongi Province

  Resident place         Boston, USA (Permanent resident in USA)

  Education                M.A in Statistics at Beijing Normal University ,1985; Ph.D in

                                 Mathematics at University of California, Berkeley, 1991; Ph.D. in

Political Economy at Harvard

  Profession               Foundation for China in 21st Century, Editor-in-Chief of China in the

                                 21st Century series, research fellow at Harvard Kennedy School of

Government

  Date of arrest          2002-04-26(detained)/2002-06-21(arrested)

  Cause of arrest        Entering China with a passport of his friend as he could not renew his

                                 Chinese passport and observing the workers movements

  Charge                    Espionage and crossing the national border illegally

  Date of sentence      2004-05-13  (Beijing Intermediate People's Court)

  Sentence                  5 years imprisonment and 1 years deprivation of political rights

  Place of jail             Tianhe Prison of Beijing, Post Box 1290-1, Daxing District,  Beijing

102609

  Situation in jail        2004-05-18, refusing to appear in a formal statement

  Defender                 Lawyer Mo Shaoping

  Family contact        Christina Fu (wife), Tel: 1-617-7359133,1-617-3884059, e-mail: 

                                 info@yangjianli.com

  Case adopted by      Jianli Support Group

  Current Status         unknown

  References              http://www.yangjianli.com/

                                http://www.yangjianli.com/index_gb.htm (Chinese)

                                http://www.ourtw.com/News_Show2.asp?NewsID=411 (Chinese)

 Compiled by WiPC of Independent Chinese PEN Centre (11/2004) 34

Last update: November 3, 2004