Writers in Prison (China)

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  Name                      YAN Jun (中文资料)

  Pen name                Bingde

  Sex                          Male

  Birth date                1973-05-02

  Birth place

  Resident place         Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province

  Education                Graduated from Xi'an Teachers College, Shanxi Province, 1994

  Profession               Freelance writer and meddel school teacher of biology, Xi'an City

  Date of arrest          2003-04 -05(detained) / 2003-05 -09 (arrested)

  Cause of arrest        Internet writing and publishing articles (more than 20) of criticising the

                                 authorities

  Charge                    Inciting subversion of the state power

  Date of sentence      2003-12-08  (Xi'an Intermediate People's Court)

  Sentence                  2 years imprisonment

  Place of jail             Shanxi Province

  Situation in jail        Tortured severely by other prisoners and rescued into hospital

  Defender                 Lowyers Du Peixin and Yu Shengxiu

  Family contact        Yan Keqin (father) and Dai Yuzhen (mother), Guangxia Garden 6-2-204,

                                 Dongta South Street, Hantai District, Hanzhong City, Shaanxi Province,

723000

                                 Tel:0086-916-2645036, 0086-13196387257

  Case adopted by      ICPC

  Current Status         Main case

                                 Seeking the donation to the family

  References              http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=8752

                                 http://iso.hrichina.org/iso/news_item.adp?news_id=1565

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

                                 http://www.secretchina.com/news/articles/4/5/7/64698.html  (Chinese)

Compiled by WiPC of Independent Chinese PEN Centre (11/2004)  7

Last update: November 3, 2004