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Name  YANG Zili
Pen name  Yangzi
Sex Male
Birth date  1971-12-10
Birth place  Daming County, Hebei Province
Resident place  Beijing
Education  M. Sc. in Mechanics, Beijing University, July, 1998
Profession 

Computer engineer at Chinese Computer Software Development Cooperation, Beijing. (Honorary members of ICPC and Ghanaian PEN Center)

Date of arrest  2001-03-13 (secretly detained) / 2001-04-20 (arrested)
Organ of arrest  National Security Bureau of Beijing City
Cause of arrest 

Joining the New Youth Study Group and creator of a website of Yangzis Home of Ideas, (www.lib.126.com)

Charge  Subversion of the state power
Date of sentence 2003-05-28, 2003-11-10 (appeal)
Organ of sentence Beijing Intermediate People's Court, Beijing High People's Court (appeal)
Sentence  8 years imprisonment and 2 years deprivation of political rights
Defender  Lawyers XU Wanlin and LI Heping
Place of jail  Beijing No 2 Prison, Postbox: 2357-7, Chaoyang District, 100023 Beijing
Situation in jail  Since May 2007 starting feeling sick, often falling in faint, or having dusky eyes, a tingling tongue, palpitating
heart, shivering body, and even having urine incontinence, which usually lasts for half an hour to be over while only lying down. No medical care yet
Date of release  2009-03-12
Family contact 

LU Kun (wife), msqs2000@gmail.com, Yang Zili: +86-13552727537

Donation to  
Case adopted by  ICPC, Ghanaian PEN
Current Status 

Release on expiry of the sentence on 2009-03-12(Case therefore closed) ICPC keeping contact

  Reference  
 

http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=1868 http://www.alliance.org.hk/prison/?lang=c&viewid=3089(Chinese) http://www.boxun.com/my-cgi/post/display_all.cgi?cat=yangzili (Chinese)