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  Name                      YU Dongyue (ÖÐÎÄ×ÊÁÏ)

  Pen name

Sex Male

Birth date 1967-12-04

Birth place Liuyang City, Hunan Province

Resident place Liuyang City, Hunan Province

Education Graduated from Department of Art at Xiangtan Teachers College, Hunan Province

Profession Editor of Liuyang Daily

(Honorary Members of Melbourne, Canadian and Czech PEN centers)

Date of arrest 1989-05-23

Cause of arrest Staining the portrait of Mao Zedong on Tian An Men during 1989 student

protests in Beijing and sent by student pickets to police station

Charge Counter-revolutionary sabotage and counter-revolutionary propaganda instigation

Date of sentence 1989-08 (Beijing Intermediate People's Court)

Sentence 15 years imprisonment (reduced from 20 years)

Place of jail Chishan Prison, Postbox: 101, 413104 Yuanjiang City, Hunan Province

Situation in jail Tortured into extreme psychological disturbance, or mental illness

Date of release 2005-05-22(?)

Defender Lawyer Gao

Family contact WU Pinghua (mather)Tel0086-731-3540284

YU Xiyue (brother)Tel 0086-13787791608(m)

Case adopted by ICPC, Melbourne, Canadian and Czech PEN centers

Current Status Main case

Seeking the donation to the family

  References              http://www.pencanada.ca/committ/HM/YuDongYue.htm

                                 http://www.peacehall.com/news/gb/pubvp/2003/06/200306040601.shtml (Chinese)

 

Compiled by WiPC of Independent Chinese PEN Centre (11/2004)  20


Last update: November 3, 2004

 


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