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Name  HU Shigen
Pen name 
Sex Male
Birth date  1954-09-03
Birth place  Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province
Resident place  Beijing
Education  M. A. in Chinese Literature at Beijing University (1986)
Profession 

Lecturer at Beijing Language Institute (now Beijing Language and Culture University)
(Honorary member of ICPC, English PEN and PEN Canada)

Date of arrest  1992-05-27 (detained) / 1992-09-27(arrested)
Organ of arrest  Public Security Bureau of Beijing City
Cause of arrest 

Founding Liberal Democratic Party of China (LDPC) and Free Labour Union of China, and drafting documents for LDPC and articles for commemoration of June-fourth victims in 1989

Charge  Organising and leading counter-revolutionary group and counter-revolutionary propaganda instigation
Date of sentence 1994-12-16, 1995-06-14 (appeal)
Organ of sentence Beijing Intermediate People's Court, Beijing High People's Court (appeal)
Sentence  20 years imprisonment and 5 years deprivation of political rights
Defender  Self (plea of not guilty)
Place of jail  Beijing No 2 Prison, Postbox: 2357, Chaoyang District, 100023 Beijing
Situation in jail  Under secondary restriction; tortured to have a brocken and deformed finger of his right hand and bad health in liver, heart, stomach and ears,and suffering from neurasthenic.
Date of release  2008-08-26 (reduction by 3 years and 9 months)
Family contact 

HU Shuigeng (younger brother), Tel: 0086-13879681705

HU Fengyun (elder sister), Tel: 0086-13807912885

Donation to ICPC, England PEN
Case adopted by 

ICPC, English PEN, PEN Canada

Current Status 
  Reference  

http://www.amnesty.org/ailib/intcam/china/china96/report/cc2.htm
http://www.englishpen.org/writersinprison/writersinexile/hushigen/
http://www.pen.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/2738/prmID/1502
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/2008-08-30-voa52.cfm (Chinese)

http://www.alliance.org.hk/prison/?lang=c&viewid=1601(Chinese)
http://www.secretchina.com/news/articles/2/8/7/22560.html (Chinese)
http://bjzc.org/bjs/bc/06/103 (Chinese)