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Name  XU Wei
Pen name  Xu Lujun, Zhou Han
Sex Male
Birth date  1974-08-12
Birth place  Yantai City, Shandong Province
Resident place  Beijing
Education  M. A. in Philosophy, Beijing Normal University, 1999.
Profession 

Reporter and editor of Consumer Daily
(
(Honorary members of ICPC and Ghanaian PEN Center)

Date of arrest  2001-03-13 (secretly detained) / 2001-04-20 (arrested)
Organ of arrest  National Security Bureau of Beijing City
Cause of arrest 

Founding the New Youth Study Group with Zhang Honghai and Jin Haike, acting as general secretary, and internet posting of the articles

Charge  Subversion of the state power
Date of sentence 2003-05-28, 2003-11-10 (appeal)
Organ of sentence Beijing Intermediate People's Court, Beijing High People's Court (appeal)
Sentence  10 years imprisonment and 2 years deprivation of political rights
Defender  Lawyer ZHU Jiuhu
Place of jail 

Yanqing Prison,  Postbox 3554-9, Yanqin County, 102100 Beijing (since 2008)

Situation in jail 

Denied to get enough food, tortured, shut

into isolation cell due to his persistent

arguments against the  conviction,

hanger striking several times, suspected

ofmental problem.

Date of release  2011-03-12
Family contact  XU Liansheng (father), Tel: 0086-535-7074268, 0086-13793546459; Baimei Street 1-7, Zhifu District, Yantai City, Shandong Province.
Donation to XU Liansheng by the West Union
Case adopted by  ICPC, Ghanaian PEN
Current Status 

Release on expiry of the sentence on 2011-03-12
(Case therefore closed) ICPC keeping contact

  Reference  
 

http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=7014
http://www.ifex.org/china/2008/02/27/serious_health_concerns_for_long/
http://www.zhongguohun.com/chison/yujie/035.html (Chinese)
http://www.alliance.org.hk/prison/?lang=c&viewid=3090 (Chinese)
http://www.cicus.org/info/artshow.asp?ID=63909 (Chinese)