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Name  CHEN Shaowen
Pen name 
Sex Male
Birth date  1962-12-25
Birth place  Lianyuan City, Hunan Province
Resident place  Lianyuan City, Hunan Province
Education 
Profession 

Freelance writer; former policeman and unemployed worker of Lianyuan City's Hardware Co.

Date of arrest  2002-08-06 (detained) / 2002-09-11 (arrested)
Organ of arrest  National Security Bureau of Loudi City, Hunan Province
Cause of arrest 

Internet writing and publishing articles (more than 40) of criticising the authorities for the unemployment, social injustice and legal abuse

Charge  Inciting subversion of the state power
Date of sentence  2003-02-05, 2003-08-18 (appeal)
Organ of sentence Loudi Intermediate People's Court, High People¨s Court of Hunan Province
Sentence  3 years imprisonment and 1 year deprivation of political rights (appeal court)
Defender  Self (for not guilty)
Place of jail  Chishan Prison, Postbox: 101, 413104 Yuanjiang City, Hunan Province
Situation in jail  Weak health, no family visit
Date of release  2005-08-05
Family contact 

LIAO Zhulan (wife), Tel: 0086-738-4433124,0086-13508446964 (m)

Guangmin Road 62-601, Lantian, Lianyuan City, Hunan Province, 417100

Donation to  Home by post
Case adopted by  ICPC
Current Status 

Release on expiry of the sentence on 2005-08-05
(Case therefore closed) ICPC keeping contact

  Reference  

http://www.cpj.org/protests/02ltrs/China24sept02pl.html
http://www.laocanmou.net/Html/200534214312-1.html(Chinese)
http://www.asiademo.org/gb/author/chenshaowen.htm (Chinese)
http://www.boxun.com/my-cgi/post/display_all.cgi?cat=zsw (Chinese)