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Name  YU Dongyue
Pen name 
Sex Male
Birth date  1967-12-04
Birth place  Liuyang City, Hunan Province
Resident place  Liuyang City, Hunan Province
Education 

Graduated from Department of Art at Xiangtan Teachers College, Hunan Province

Profession 

Editor of Liuyang Daily
(Honorary Members of Melbourne, Canadian
, Czech and German PEN centers)

Date of arrest  1989-05-23
Organ of arrest  Public Security Bureau of Beijing City
Cause of arrest 

Staining the portrait of Mao Zedong on Tian An Men during 1989 student protests in Beijing and sent by student pickets to police station

Charge  Counter-revolutionary sabotage and counter-revolutionary propaganda 
Date of sentence 1989-08
Organ of sentence Beijing Intermediate People's Court
Sentence  18 years imprisonment (reduced from 20 years)
Defender  Lawyer GAO
Place of jail  Chishan Prison, Postbox: 101, 413104 Yuanjiang City, Hunan Province
Situation in jail  Tortured into extreme psychological disturbance, or mental illness
Date of release  2006-02-22  (on parole)
Family contact 

WU Pinghua (mather), Tel:0086-731-3540284

YU Xiyue (brother), Tel: 0086-13787791608(m)

Donation to

 Bank of China, Chigang Sub-branch, Dongtang Office, SWIFT Code: BKCHCNBJ970

Changsha City, Hunan Province, P.R. China

Account: 4687284-0188-026395-3  YU Xiyue

Case adopted by   ICPC, Melbourne, Canadian, Czech and German PEN centers
Current Status 

Released on parole on 2006-02-22 (Case therefore closed)
ICPC keeping contact and seeking the donation to the family

  Reference  

http://www.pencanada.ca/committ/HM/YuDongYue.htm http://www.alliance.org.hk/prison/?lang=c&viewid=746 (Chinese)
http://www.peacehall.com/news/gb/pubvp/2003/06/200306040601.shtml
(Chinese)