Writers in Prison (China)

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Name                      YU Huafeng (中文资料)

  Pen name

  Sex                          Male

  Birth date                1968-11-01

  Birth place              Jingshan County, Hubei Province

  Resident place         Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province

  Education                University graduate

  Profession               Vice Editor-in-Chief and General Manager of Nanfang Dushi Bao

                                 (Southern Metropolis News)

  Date of arrest          2004-01-09 (detained)/2004-01-14 (arrested)

  Cause of arrest        Publishing on Southern Metropolis News a number of publishing stories

                                that embarrass local authorities, especially the reports on SARS cases

                                and the case of  Sun Zhigang tortureed to death

  Charge                    Corruption and bribery

  Date of sentence      2004-03-19 (District court), 2004-06-15(Guangzhou Intermediate

People's Court)

  Sentence                  8 years imprisonment and confiscating the property of RMB 50000

  Place of jail             Guangdong Province

  Situation in jail        unknown

  Defender                 Lawyers Wang Bo and Xu Zhiyong

  Family contact        Xiang Li (wife), Mingfeng Road 35, Zhonglu Beach, Lijiang Garden,

                                 Fanyu District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province

  Case adopted by      ICPC, Ghanaian PEN

  Current Status         Main case

                                 to contact the family

  References              http://www.cpj.org/protests/04ltrs/China09apr04pl.html

                                 http://www.xianzheng.org/xianzhengxingdong/nanfangdushibao/nanfangdushibao.htm(Chinese)

 Compiled by WiPC of Independent Chinese PEN Centre (11/2004) 38

Last update: November 15, 2004