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Name  SHI Tao
Pen name  Nice Ears
Sex Male
Birth date  1968-07-25
Birth place  Yanchi City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region
Resident place  Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province
Education  B. A. in Political Education at East China Normal University, 1991
Profession 

Poet, freelance writer and journalist
(ICPC member, Honorary Member of Sydney, German, Canadian, English, USA, American and Swiss Italian PEN centers)

Date of arrest  2004-11-24 (detained) / 2004-12-14 (arrested)
Organ of arrest  National Security Bureau of Hunan Province
Cause of arrest  Internet posting an article that was alleged later to have revealed the state secrets
Charge  Illegally providing state secrets overseas
Date of sentence 2005-04-30 / 2005-06-02 (appeal)
Organ of sentence Shangsha Intermediate People's Court, Hunan High People's Court (appeal), Hunan Province
Sentence  10 years imprisonment and 2 years deprivation of political rights
Defender  Lawyer Tomas GUO (disbarred), TONG Wenzhong, Mo Shaoping and DING Xikui(appeal)
Place of jail   Chishan Prison, Postbox: 101, 413104 Yuanjiang City, Hunan Province
Situation in jail  OK
Date of release  2014-11-23
Family contact 

Brother SHI Hua, Tel: 0086-951-5053756; 0086-15825376678

Donation to

Bank of China, Yinchuan Branch
SWIFT Code: BKCHCNBJ260
Yinchuan City£¬Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Account: 3347 6602 0018 602 SHI Hua   

Case adopted by  ICPC, Sydney and German PEN
Current Status 

Main case

Seeking the donation to the family

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http://www.cpj.org/news/2005/China01july05na.html
http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20050501_1.htm                        
http://www.boxun.com/my-cgi/post/display_all.cgi?cat=shitao (Chinese)
http://peacehall.com/news/gb/china/2005/06/200506300330.shtml (Chinese)

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