Writers in Prison (China)

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  Name                      ZHU Yufu (中文资料)

  Pen name

  Sex                          Male

  Birth date                1953-02-13

  Birth place              Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province

  Resident place         Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province

  Education                Student at Department of Chinese Literature at Hangzhou College, 1971

  Profession               Staff of Housing Managemenet office, Shangcheng District, Hangzhou

                                 City, and editor of Opposition Party

  Date of arrest          1999-05(detained)/1999-09-20(arrested)

  Cause of arrest        Founding the magazine of Opposyition Party for Chinese Democratic

                                 Party,distributing its artciles on internet, and communicating with

                                 overseas organization via e-mails

  Charge                    Subversion of the state power

  Date of sentence      1999-11-09(Hangzhou Intermediate People's Court), 1999-12-18 (appeal)

  Sentence                  7 years imprisonment

  Place of jail             Zhejiang No. 1 Prison, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province

  Situation in jail        unknown

  Defender                 unknown

  Family contact        JIANG Hangli (wife)

  Case adopted by

  Current Status

  References              http://www.democracy.org.hk/EN/nov1999/mainland_05.htm

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

 Compiled by WiPC of Independent Chinese PEN Centre (11/2004) 43

Last update: November 3, 2004