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Name  YANG Jianli
Pen name 
Sex Male
Birth date  1963-07-15
Birth place  Cangshan County, Shandongi Province
Resident place  Boston, USA (Permanent resident in USA)
Education 

M.A in Statistics at Beijing Normal University, 1985; Ph.D in Mathematics at University of California, Berkeley, 1991; Ph.D. in Political Economy at Harvard

Profession 

Foundation for China in 21st Century, Editor-in-Chief of China in the 21st Century series, research fellow at Harvard Kennedy School of Government

Date of arrest  2002-04-26 (detained) / 2002-06-21 (arrested)
Organ of arrest  National Security Bureau of Beijing City
Cause of arrest 

Entering China with a passport of his friend as he could not renew his Chinese passport and observing the workers movements

Charge  Espionage and crossing the national border illegally
Date of sentence 2004-05-13
Organ of sentence The Second Intermediate People Court Of Beijing 
Sentence  5 years imprisonment and 1 years deprivation of political rights
Defender  Lawyer MO Shaoping
Place of jail  Tianhe Prison of Beijing, Post Box 1290-1, Daxing District, Beijing 102609
Situation in jail  2004-05-18, refusing to appear in a formal statement
Date of release  2007-04-25  
Family contact 

Christina FU (wife), Tel: 001-617-7359133, 001-617-3884059, e-mail: info@yangjianli.com

Donation to
Case adopted by  Jianli Support Group
Current Status 

Release on expiry of the sentence on 2007-04-25 (Therefore the case closed) ICPC keeping contact

  Reference  

http://www.yangjianli.com/
http://www.yangjianli.com/index_gb.htm (Chinese) http://www.ourtw.com/News_Show2.asp?NewsID=411 (Chinese)