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Name  HE Yanjie
Pen name   
Sex Male
Birth date 

1967

Birth place 

Qingfeng County, Henan Province      

Resident place  Ji¨nan City, Shandong Province
Education   
Profession  Freelance reporter, formerly journalist at Shandong Workers Daily (Shandong Gongren Bao) and China Tobacco Post (Zhongguo Yancao Bao)
Date of arrest  2007-06-25 (detained), 2007-08-02 (arrested)
Organ of arrest  Public Security Bureau of Tengzhou City, Shandong Province
Cause of arrest  As an assistant to QI Chonghuai, making research and interview on the corruption and injustice related to the local governments and officials, and co-author some reports on the newspaper and on Internet (codefendant of QI¨s case)
Charge suspicion of blackmailing
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  2 Years imprisonment
Defender 

Lawyers

Place of jail  Tengzhou Prison, Tengzhou City, Shandong Province
Situation in jail  2009-06-25
Date of release  2011-06-25
Family contact  Liu Zhike (wife), Tel: 0086-13065055740
Donation to  
Case adopted by  ICPC
Current Status Release on expiry of the sentence on 2009-06-25
 (Therefore the case closed)
Reference  

http://www.wan-press.org/article16370.html

http://egypt.ifex.org/20fr/content/view/full/90456/

http://www.penchinese.com/wipc/2008feb/020w.htm (Chinese)

http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/shenrubaodao/2008/02/21/qi_chonghuai/ (Chinese)

http://www.wccs.gov.cn/index.php?act=aview&tid=2273 (Chinese)

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