Writers in Prison (China)

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  Name                      ZHANG Honghai (中文资料)

  Pen name Jiang Mingzu

Sex Male

Birth date 1973-11-01

Birth place Jinyun County, Zhejiang Province

Resident place Jinyun County, Zhejiang Province

Education B.Sc. Beijing Broadcast Institute, Beijing, July, 2000.

Profession Freelance writer (Honorary Members of Ghanaian PEN)

Date of arrest 2001-03-13 (secretly detained) / 2001-04-20 (arrested)

Cause of arrest Founding the New Youth Study Group together with Xu Wei and Jin Haike,

internet posting of the artucles

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 Zhejiang No.1 Prison, Postbox: 1910-2, 310019 Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province,

Situation in jail Bad health

Date of release 2009-03-12

Defender Lawyers Zhang Sizi and Yan Ruyu

Family contact Zhang Ruiqing (father) and Fan Yunmei (mother),

Tel: 0086-578-2585955

Case adopted by ICPC, Ghanaian PEN

Current Status Main case

Seeking the donation to the family

References             http://iso.hrichina.org:8151/iso/article.adp?article_id=1210&subcategory_id=204

                             http://www.zhongguohun.com/chison/yujie/035.html (Chinese)

                                 http://gb.hrichina.org/gate/gb/big5.hrichina.org/big5/detainee_details.adp?detainee_id=329 (Chinese)

Compiled by WiPC of Independent Chinese PEN Centre (11/2004)  9

Last update: November 3, 2004