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Name  QI Chonghuai
Pen name 
Sex Male
Birth date  1965-02-07
Birth place  Shandong Province
Resident place  Ji¨nan City, Shandong Province
Education  University graduate
Profession  Journalist and a correspondent of the Weekend Edition of the
Legality Daily (Fazhi Ribao), formerly the Legality Morning Post
 (Fazhi Zaobao) (Honorary member of ICPC)
Date of arrest  2007-06-26 (detained), 2007-08-02 (arrested)
Organ of arrest  Public Security Bureau of Tengzhou City, Shandong Province
Cause of arrest  Publishing a number of reports on the corruption and injustice related
to the local governments and officials,
on the media in China and on
overseas websites and being interviewed by the overseas media,
such as Epoch Times and the Radio of Free Asia in USA
Charge 

Blackmailing (suspicion of economic crimes for being taken away on June 25,

suspicion of bluffing and deceiving for detention on June 26)

Date of sentence

2008-05-13; 2008-07-24 (appeal)

Organ of sentence People¨s Court of Tengzhou City; Intermediate People¨s Court of Zaozhuang City,  Shandong Province (appeal)
Sentence  4 Years imprisonment
Defender  Lawyers LI Xiongbing and LI Chunfu
Place of jail  Tengzhou Prison, Tengzhou City, Shandong Province
Situation in jail  OK though tortured occasionally in detention center
Date of release  2011-06-25
Family contact  no
Donation to
Case adopted by  ICPC
Current Status

The case was turned back to the police for further

investigation due to the lack of evidence, submitted

again and prosecuted to the court in April, 2008.

  Reference  
 

http://www.rsf.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=50

http://en.epochtimes.com/news/7-6-12/56383.html

http://zonaeuropa.com/20070625_1.htm

http://en.epochtimes.com/news/7-7-2/57146.html

http://www.cpj.org/news/2008/asia/china13may08na.html

http://windows.qikan.com/Model3/View_Article.aspx?titleid=nafc20071014 (Chinese)

http://www.bjlawyer.net.cn/ShowArticle.shtml?ID=2006113014491298043.htm

http://www.kanzhongguo.com/news/gb/kanshehui/luanxiang/2007/0525/196545.html

http://www.ncn.org/asp/zwginfo/da.asp?ID=71769&ad=5/30/2007 (Chinese)

http://news.epochtimes.com/gb/8/5/13/n2116216.htm (Chinese)