Writers in Prison (China)

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  Name                      ZHAO Changqing (中文资料)

  Pen name

  Sex                          Male

  Birth date                1969-04

  Birth place              Shanyang County, Hanzhong City, Shaanxi Province

  Resident place         Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province

  Education                B.Sc. in History at Shaanxi Normal University, 1992

  Profession               Former secondary school teacher, and freelance writer

  Date of arrest          2002-11-07 (detained secretly) / 2002-12-27 (arrested)

  Cause of arrest        Writing and publishing on internet an open letter for political reform to 16th

                                 Congress of CCP

  Charge                    Inciting subversion of the state power

  Date of sentence      2003-08-04  (Xi'an Intermediate People's Court)

  Sentence                  5 years imprisonment

  Place of jail             Weinan Prison, Letian Street 118, 714000 Weinan City, Shaanxi

Province

  Situation in jail        Ever in prison hospital due to white plague severer.

  Defender                 Lawyer Du Peixin

  Family contact        Tao Xuemei (sister), Tel: 0086-29-88531642, 0086-13152028698

  Case adopted by      ICPC

  Current Status         Main Case

                                 Seeking the donation to the family

  References              http://english.epochtimes.com/news/3-8-5/2215.html

                                 http://www.justresponse.net/Zhao_appeal.html

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

                                 http://www.boxun.com/my-cgi/post/display_all.cgi?cat=zcq (Chinese)

Compiled by WiPC of Independent Chinese PEN Centre (11/2004)  12

Last update: November 3, 2004