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Name  CHEN Yanbin
Pen name  Yanlin
Sex Male
Birth date  1967-04-03
Birth place  Changchun City, Jilin Province
Resident place  Beijing City
Education  College student
Profession 

Student at Beijing Second College of Foreign Languages and co-editor of Tieliu (Iron Currents(Honorary members of Finnish and German PEN centers)

Date of arrest  1990-09-13
Organ of arrest  Public Security Bureau of Beijing City
Cause of arrest 

Founding the peaceful "Chinese Revolutionary Democratic Front" and publishing an magazine Tieliu (Iron Currents)

Charge  Oranising and leading counter-revolutionary group, and counter-revolutionary 
Date of sentence 1991-03-05
Organ of sentence Beijing Intermediate People's Court
Sentence  15 years imprisonment (later reduced by 5 months and 11 days) and 4 years deprivation of political rights
Defender   unknown
Place of jail   Beijing No.1 Prison, Postbox: 219, 102609 Daxing District, Beijing
Situation in jail  unhealthy
Date of release  2005-04-12
Family contact  Mother YUAN, Tel: 0086-10-62253505
Donation to
Case adopted by   ICPC, Finnish and German PEN centers
Current Status 

Release on 2005-04-12 (Case therefore closed)
ICPC keeping contact

  Reference  

http://www.cpj.org/attacks02/china_imprisoned_02.html
http://www.alliance.org.hk/prison/?lang=c&viewid=59 (Chinese)
http://bjzc.org/bjs/zc/109/91(Chinese)