Writers in Prison (China)
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Name YANG Zili (ÖÐÎÄ×ÊÁÏ)
Pen name Yangzi
Sex Male
Birth date 1971-12-10
Birth place Daming County, Hebei Province
Resident place Beijing
Education M. Sc. in Mechanics, Beijing University, July, 1998
Profession Comupter engineer at Chinese Computer Software Development Cooperation,
Beijing.
Date of arrest 2001-03-13 (secretly detained) / 2001-04-20 (arrested)
Cause of arrest Joining the New Youth Study Group and creator of a website of Yangzis Home of
Ideas, (www.lib.126.com)
Charge Subversion of the state power
Date of sentence 2003-05-28 (Beijing Intermediate People's Court), 2003-11-10 (appeal)
Sentence 8 years imprisonment and 2 years deprivation of political rights
Place of jail Beijing No 2 Prison, Postbox: 2357-7, Chaoyang District, 100023 Beijing
Situation in jail OK
Date of release 2009-03-12
Defender Lawyers Xu Wanlin and Li Heping
Family contact Lu Kun (wife), Wangjingnanhu West Garden 111-1904, Chaoyang District, Beijing Ttel: 0086-13683184125
Case adopted by ICPC, Ghanaian PEN
Current Status Main case
Seeking the donation to the family
References http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=1868
http://www.yhfh.net/oops/index.php?module=announce&ANN_user_op=categories&category=5&MMN_position=13:13 (Chinese) http://www.boxun.com/my-cgi/post/display_all.cgi?cat=yangzili
(Chinese)
Compiled by WiPC of Independent Chinese PEN Centre (11/2004) 8
Last update: November 3, 2004
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