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Name
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YANG Xiaoqing |
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Pen name |
YANG Yang, SHI Yan, Buyi |
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Sex |
Male |
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Birth date |
1969-09-04 |
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Birth place |
Longhui County, Hunan Province |
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Resident place |
Changsha City, Hunan Province |
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Education |
Graduate study at the College
of Hunan Provincial Committee of Chinese Communist Party |
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Profession |
Reporter of the
China Industrial Economy News (Newspaper), Beijing City
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Date of arrest |
2006-01-22 (detained), 2006-02-23 (arrested) |
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Organ of arrest |
Public Security Bureau of Longhui County, Hunan Province |
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Cause of arrest |
Investigating and reporting the alleged corruption of Longhui County officials, including the secretary of County Committee of Chinese Communist Party but being accused of posting defamatory articles on Internet after failed to extort up to 800,000 Yuan (US$100,000) from Longhui County officials. |
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Charge |
Extortion and blackmail |
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Date of sentence |
2006-06-15 (1st trial), 2006-10-17 (appeal) |
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Organ of sentence |
People¨s Court of Longhui County (1st), Intermediate People¨s Court of Shaoyang City. Hunan Province (appeal) |
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Sentence |
Freed from criminal punishment (appeal ruling to reject 1 year imprisonment at 1st trial) |
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Defender |
Lawyer ZHANG Xingshui and YANG Yong |
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Place of jail |
Detention Center of Public Security Bureau of Longhui County, Hunan Province |
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Situation in jail |
Infection of Hepatitis B found after his detention |
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Date of release |
2006-09-06 (on parole pending appeal trial) |
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Family contact |
GONG Jie (wife), Tel:0086-13973177340 |
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Donation to |
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Case adopted by
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ICPC |
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Current Status
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Release on parole pending appeal trial on 2006-09-06 and freed form criminal punishment by appeal court ruling on 2006-10-17
(Therefore the case closed) ICPC keeping contact
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Reference
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http://www.cpj.org/news/2006/asia/china15june06na.html
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=18019
http://www.ifj.org/default.asp?index=3828&Language=EN
http://www.huaxiabao.org/article.asp?Issue=141&ArtNb=4(in Chinese)
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/shenrubaodao/2006/10/23/jizhe/ (in Chinese)
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/shenrubaodao/2006/04/03/yangxiaoqing/ (in Chinese)
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