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April 2012 (29)
Apr 8 2012 7:05PM
Writers in Prison (8)

Yang Tongyan (杨同彦, a.k.a. Yang Tianshui 杨天水, born 12 April 1961), a freelance writer, member of the Independent Chinese PEN Center, is currently serving a 12-year sentence in Nanjing Prison, Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province. Yang is a...

Apr 7 2012 9:10PM
Writers in Prison (7)

Shi Tao ( 师涛 , born 25 July 1968), a journalist and poet from Changsha, Hunan Province, who wrote for the daily Chinese publication Contemporary Business News , is currently serving a 10-year sentence in Hunan. Shi also wrote essays...

Apr 6 2012 9:11PM
Writers in Prison (6)

Liu Xianbin (刘贤斌, born 2 October 1968), a veteran pro-democracy and human rights activist from Suining City, Sichuan Province, currently serving his third long-term imprisonment in Chuanzhong Prison, Nanchong City, Sichuan Province...

Apr 5 2012 1:10PM
Writers in Prison (5)

Tashi Rabten (pen name: The’urang), a student at the Northwest Nationalities University and the editor of banned literary magazine Eastern Snow Mountain ( Tibetan : Shar Dungri), was sentenced to four years in prison on 2 June 2011...

Apr 4 2012 6:33PM
Writers in Prison (4)

Chen Wei (陈卫, DOB: Feb 21, 1969), a native of Suining City, Sichuan Province, was a 1989 Tiananmen student protester from the Beijing Institute of Technology, majoring in mechanical engineering. He was imprisoned in Qincheng Prison and...

Apr 4 2012 7:46AM
China Human Rights Briefing March 27-April 2, 2012

Top News • Arrested in Anti-Gang Campaign, Journalist Sentenced After Secret Trial: It was recently revealed that Chongqing journalist Gao Yingpu was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment for a crime of “endangering state security”...

Apr 3 2012 11:18PM
Writers in Prison (3)

Today we are featuring Zhu Yufu (朱虞夫), a veteran Democracy Wall activist in the late 1970s and an editor of the Opposition Party (在野党) magazine which carried articles about the China Democratic Party in 1998-99. Zhu was convicted of...

Apr 2 2012 10:08PM
Writers in Prison (2)

Protesting against the organizers of the London Book Fair 2012 who have not featured in their programme any writers imprisoned by the Chinese regime, this blog will be highlighting one such writer every day leading to the book fair...

Apr 1 2012 5:43PM
Writers in Prison (1)

Protesting against the organizers of the London Book Fair 2012 who have not featured in their programme any writers imprisoned by the Chinese regime, this blog will be highlighting one such writer every day leading to the book fair...

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