Writers in Prison (China)

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  Name                      ZHAO Yan (中文资料)

  Pen name

Sex Male

Birth date 1962-03-14

Birth place Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province

Resident place Beijing

Education B. A. in literature at Heilongjiang Univeristy, 1985

Profession News Assistant at Beijing Bureau of New York Times, former reporter and editor

at China Reform Magazine

Date of arrest 2004-09-17 (detained) / 2004-10-20 (arrested)

Cause of arrest Alleged to have revealed the news of Jiang Zemin's resigning to NYT, and also

investigating and publishing articles to help the farmers to uphold their rights

Charge Suspicion of illegally providing state secrets to foreigners

Date of sentence Not yet

Sentence Not yet

Place of jail Dedention Center of National Security Bureau of Beijing City

Situation in jail Held incommunicado

Date of release

Defender Lawyer Mo Shaoping

Family contact Unknown

  References              http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/chinadn/en/archives/003150.html

                                 http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/61529/

                                 http://www.dajiyuan.com/gb/4/9/21/n666932.htm  (Chinse)

                                 http://www.epochtimes.com/gb/4/9/30/n675592p.htm  (Chinse)

Compiled by WiPC of Independent Chinese PEN Centre (11/2004)  47

Last update: November 3, 2004