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	*Name*	XU Zerong (Tsui, David )
	*Pen name*	Gao, Weiguo
	*Sex*	Male
	*Birth date*	1954-01-14
	*Birth place*	Wuhan City, Hubei Province
	*Resident place*	Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province; Permanent residence in Hong Kong
	*Education*	PhD. in politic science at St Antony's College, Oxford University, 1999
	*Profession*	Professor, researcher and publisher (Honorary members of ICPC and Ghanaian PEN Center)
	*Date of arrest*	2000-06-24 (detained) / 2000-07-29 (arrest)
	*Organ of arrest*	National Security Bureau of Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province
	*Cause of arrest*	Writing and publishing articles on China's support to the armed unrests of Malaian Communists in 1950-60s
	*Charge*	Illegally providing overseas with information and illegal business on publication
	*Date of sentence*	2001-12-20, 2002-12 (appeal)
	*Organ of sentence*	Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court, High People's Court of Guangdong
	*Sentence*	13 years imprisonment, 3 years deprivation of political rights, and fine of 50, 000CNY
	*Defender*	Lawyer HUANG Kengru
	*Place of jail*	Xicun Prison, Nanjing Road 14, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province
	*Situation in jail*	Hypertension severer and no permission for family visit until Dec. 2002,high blood pressure.
	*Date of release*	2011-06-23 (reduced by 2 years)
	*Family contact*	Xu Xiaoying (niece), tel: +86-20-84034592
	*Donation to*
	*Case adopted by*	ICPC, Ghanaian PEN
	*Current Status*	Released on 2011-06-23 due to the 2-year reduction of 13 years sentence (Case therefore closed) ICPC keeping contact The sentence was reduced by 9 months in 2006, 10 months in 2008, and 5 months in 2011, respectively
	*Reference*
	http://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/antonians/tsui.html http://www.duihua.org/2006/09/nine-month-sentence-reduction.html http://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/antonians/tsui.shtml http://www.alliance.org.hk/prison/?lang=c&viewid=3085 (Chinese) http://bjzc.org/bjs/bc/108/35 (Chinese) http://members.lycos.co.uk/sixiang000/author/X/XuZeRong/XuZeRong.htm(Chinese)