Chen Qitang was arrested on October 26, 2007 by the Foshan City Public Security Bureau Chan City sub-division while helping villagers in Sanshan Village, Guangdong Province, draft legal documents to appeal the confiscation of their land by the local government. <\/p>\n
On December 2, 2007, he was formally arrested for \u201cimpersonation and fraud\u201d. <\/p>\n
On December 31, 2008, Chen Qitang was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for \u201cimpersonation and fraud\u201d.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/chen-qitang","city":"Foshan","country":"China","lat":"23.021721","lon":"113.121316"}},{"item":{"name":"Chen Shuqing","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Chen_Shuqing_0.jpg","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2007-08-16","date_to":"2007-08-16","background":"
Chen Shuqing was sentenced to four years in prison on August 16, 2007 on the charge of \u201cinciting the overthrow of the government\u201d by posting articles critical of the government on the Internet.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/chen-shuqing","city":"Zhejiang","country":"China","lat":"28.998532","lon":"119.399414"}},{"item":{"name":"Du Daobin","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/du.jpg","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2003-10-28","date_to":"2003-10-28","background":"
Du Daobin was arrested on October 28, 2003 in Hubei and his computer, books and writings confiscated. <\/p>\n
He was formally charged on 12 November of 2003 with \"subversion of state power\". <\/p>\n
Du wrote for the Epoch Times (dajiyuan.com) and Democracy Forum (asiademo.org). He was sentenced to three years in prison with an additional four-year probation. He served seven and a half months before being released, but was arrested again on July 21, 2008, accused of violating the terms of his sentence by publishing more than 100 articles on the Internet. <\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/du-daobin","city":"Hubei","country":"China","lat":"30.590637","lon":"114.307251"}},{"item":{"name":"Gao Yaojie","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/gao_yaojie.jpg","status":"Released","date_from":"2007-02-09","date_to":"2007-02-09","blog_url":"http:\/\/blog.sina.com.cn\/u\/1260580754\/","background":"
Dr. Gao Yaojie is a Chinese gynecologist, academic, and AIDS activist in Zhengzhou, Henan province, China. <\/p>\n
Gao was awarded the \"Global Leadership Award, Women Changing Our World\" by the Vital Voices Global Partnership, along with three other women from China and three from India, Guatemala, and Sudan at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on March 14, 2007. <\/p>\n
In February, 2007, it was reported that Dr Gao was under house arrest and unable to travel. She was pressured by local official and made to sign a statement that she was \"unable to travel due to poor health.\" <\/p>\n
A report in the Henan Daily and other Chinese media on a visit to Dr. Gao's home by Henan Province Vice Party Secretary Chen Quanguo, Henan Vice\nGovernor Wang Jumei, and Henan Province Communist Party Organization\nDepartment head Ye Dongsong while she was still under house arrest, recounted that the officials presented with her flowers and best wishes from the Henan Party and Government for the Chinese New Year. <\/p>\n
On February 16, 2007, bowing to international pressure, the Chinese government gave Dr. Gao permission to travel to the United States to receive the award.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/gao-yaojie","city":"Zhengzhou","country":"China","lat":"34.747285","lon":"113.624863"}},{"item":{"name":"Guo Baofeng","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/amoiist-300x225_0.jpg","status":"Released","date_from":"2009-07-16","date_to":"2009-07-31","blog_url":"http:\/\/www.amoiist.com\/","background":"
Guo Baofeng was detained by police in Mawei, Fujian province, after he exposed a suspected local gang rape that resulted in the death of Yan Xiaoling. <\/p>\n
crd-net.org<\/a>: On July 22, netizen \u201cAnti\u201d (\u5b89\u66ff) sent a postcard to fellow netizen Guo Baofeng (\u90ed\u5b9d\u950b, aka \u201cAmoiist\u201d), a blogger from Fujian Province recently detained for posting messages of support online for another detained blogger-activist. The postcard reads, \u201cGuo Baofeng, Your Mother Is Calling You Home for Dinner\u201d. The next day, another netizen, \u201cBeifeng\u201d (\u5317\u98ce) , used Twitter to call on fellow netizens to follow Anti\u2019s example and send Guo postcards with exactly the same phrase on them. By the end of July 23, 127 netizens had signed up to send postcards to Guo and alerted their friends about it by posting the same phrase on their Twitter and other microblogging websites. On July 31, Guo was released on bail.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/guo-baofeng","city":"Fujian","country":"China","lat":"26.076521","lon":"119.289551"}},{"item":{"name":"Guo Quan","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/guoquan.jpg","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2008-11-13","date_to":"2008-11-13","background":" Guo Quan was arrested on November 13, 2008 by the Nanjing police on the charge of sedition. <\/p>\n On June 19, 2009, his case was formally filed at the Jiangsu Su Qian city court. (via Boxun news)<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/guo-quan","city":"Jiangsu","country":"China","lat":"39.707187","lon":"116.103516"}},{"item":{"name":"Gyaltsen","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2009-10-01","date_to":"2009-10-01","background":" Gyaltsen was arrested on October 1, 2009 in Sogdzong county, along with two other users of the QQ instant messaging service, Nymla Wangchuk and Yeshe Namkha. The three were accused of sending information about Tibet to contacts abroad via the Internet.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/gyaltsen","city":"Sogdzong","country":"China","lat":"31.895282","lon":"93.783417"}},{"item":{"name":"Hailaite Niyazi","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2009-10-01","date_to":"2009-10-01","blog_url":"www.uighurbiz.net","background":" Security officials arrested website manager Hailaite Niyazi at his home in Urumqi,\ncapital of Xinjiang, on October 1, 2009. On October 4, the authorities informed his\nfamily that he had been detained for endangering national\nsecurity.<\/p>\n Niyazi, who has worked for state newspapers Xinjiang\nLegal News and Xinjiang Economic\nDaily, also managed and edited the web site Uighurbiz until June 2009.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/hailaite-niyazi","city":"Urumqi","country":"China","lat":"43.825666","lon":"87.617298"}},{"item":{"name":"He Weihua","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/He_Weihua.jpg","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2007-07-19","date_to":"2007-07-19","blog_url":"http:\/\/www.boxun.com\/hero\/hewh\/","background":" He Weihua was forcibly confined<\/a> to a psychiatric clinic in August 2007. His detention was prompted by an article he posted on the Boxun web site in July 2007, criticizing an arbitrary increase in the price of pork by the provincial authorities. He also predicted the imminent collapse of the Communist Party as a result of internal corruption. <\/p>\n After the article was posted, He Weihua received a judicial summons from the Public Security Bureau.<\/p>\n A local state security unit had raided and searched his home in Hengyang, Hunan province, in June, confiscating his laptop computer and warning that he would suffer dire consequences if he continued to write about human rights issues. He Weihua's blog contains many investigative reports and comments critical of the authorities.<\/p>\n August 2007 was not the first time He Weihua had been mistreated by the authorities. In December 2004, members of the State Security Bureau gave him injections against his will during a period of confinement at a psychiatric facility. And in September 2006, he was run down by a motorcycle, whose rider warned him not to continue his human rights activities.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/he-weihua","city":"Hengyang","country":"China","lat":"26.893839","lon":"112.571900"}},{"item":{"name":"Hu Jia","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/hu_jia.jpg","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2007-12-27","date_to":"2007-12-27","blog_url":"http:\/\/hujiachina.spaces.live.com\/","campaign_url":"http:\/\/apps.facebook.com\/causes\/58833#","background":" From Wikipedia<\/a>: \"Hu Jia is an activist and dissident in the People's Republic of China. His work has focused on the Chinese democracy movement, Chinese environmentalist movement, and HIV\/AIDS in the People's Republic of China. Hu is the director of June Fourth Heritage & Culture Association, and he has been involved with AIDS advocacy as the executive director of the Beijing Aizhixing Institute of Health Education and as one of the founders of the non-governmental organization Loving Source. He has also been involved in work to protect the endangered Tibetan antelope. For his activism<\/a>, Hu has received awards from several European bodies, such as the Paris City Council and the European Parliament, which awarded its Human Rights prize<\/a> to him in December 2008.<\/p>\n \"On December 27, 2007, Hu was detained as part of a crackdown on dissents during the Christmas holiday season. Reporters Without Borders said that \u201cThe political police have taken advantage of the international community\u2019s focus on Pakistan to arrest one of the foremost representatives of the peaceful struggle for free expression in China.\u201d[3] The decision to take him into custody<\/a> was made after peasant leaders in several Chinese provinces issued a manifesto demanding broader land rights for peasants whose property had been confiscated for development.[3] On April 3 2008, he was sentenced to 3.5 years in jail. Hu pleaded not guilty on charges of \"inciting subversion of state power\" at his trial<\/a> in March 2008.\"<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/hu-jia","city":"Beijing","country":"China","lat":"39.842286","lon":"116.191406"}},{"item":{"name":"Huang Qi","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/huangqi.jpg","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2009-06-10","date_to":"2009-06-10","blog_url":"http:\/\/www.64tianwang.com\/index.htm","background":" After the Sichuan earthquake in 2008, Huang Qi worked as volunteer in for the disaster release and provided assistance to the parents who had lost their children because of the \"bean dreg school building construction\". He also exposed the issue on his website \"64 Tianwang<\/a>\". On June 10th, Huang was abducted by a car when having dinner with his friends. On June 16, Huang's mother received an arrest notice that Huang would be prosecuted under the charge of \"illegal possession of state secret\". <\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/huang-qi-0","city":"Sichuan","country":"China","lat":"30.600094","lon":"103.886719"}},{"item":{"name":"Huang Qi","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/huangj.jpg","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2008-07-15","date_to":"2008-07-15","blog_url":"http:\/\/64tianwang.com\/index.htm","background":" He was imprisoned from June 2000 to June 2005, and arrested again in July 2008 under the charge of illegal possession of state secret after the Sichuan earthquake. He was very active in helping the earthquake victim and criticize the bean dreg school buildings. <\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/huang-qi","city":"Sichuan","country":"China","lat":"39.842286","lon":"116.279297"}},{"item":{"name":"IIham Tohti","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/IIham.jpg","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2009-07-08","date_to":"2009-07-08","background":" Iham Tohti, a Uighur professor in Minzu university of China and founder of Uighurbiz.cn has been detained on 8th of July after the Urumqi riot. The Chinese government claimed that web sites such as Uighurbiz.cn and Diyarim.com were used to orchestrate the incitement and spread propaganda for the riot. <\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/iiham-tohti","city":"Beijing","country":"China","lat":"39.908173","lon":"116.397947"}},{"item":{"name":"Ismael An","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/an.jpg","status":"Released","date_from":"2009-07-08","date_to":"2009-08-22","blog_url":"http:\/\/ismaelan.blogspot.com\/","background":" A Muslim poet in China. He was interrogated by police because he has signed the statement demanding the release of Uighur professor of Minzu University of China and founder of Uighurbiz, IIham Tohti. <\/p>\n According to The Writers in Prison Committee of International PEN \"Ilham Tohti was arrested in Beijing on 6 July 2009, after speaking out on the ethnic unrest which broke out in Urumqi on 5 July 2009. He was initially held under house arrest, before being transferred to an unknown location where he was held incommunicado for interrogation.\" Ilhamwas release on 22 August 2009.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/ismael","city":"Jinan","country":"China","lat":"36.665282","lon":"116.994915"}},{"item":{"name":"Jamyang Kyi","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/jamyang_kyi.jpg","status":"Released","date_from":"2008-04-01","date_to":"2008-05-01","blog_url":"http:\/\/www.tibetabc.cn\/user1\/jamyangkyi\/index.html","background":" Jamyang Kyi is a Tibetan writer, performer and blogger. She was arrested at her office at state-owned Qinghai TV in Qining on April 1, 2008. Her house was searched by security forces who took away her computer and contact adresses. Jamyang Kyi was released about one month after the incident.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/jamyang-kyi","city":"Qining","country":"China","lat":"36.617085","lon":"101.778208"}},{"item":{"name":"Kong Youping","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/hong.jpg","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2003-12-01","date_to":"2003-12-01","background":" Kong was arrested in December 2003 at home with his computer seized in Liaolin. He was a freelance writer for an online forum called democracy forum (www.asiademo.org<\/a>). He was sentenced first to 15 year imprisonment then to 10 years upon appeal under the charge of \"subversion of state power\". <\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/kong-youping","city":"Liaolin","country":"China","lat":"29.271157","lon":"102.670163"}},{"item":{"name":"Kunchok Tsephel","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Tsephel.jpg","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2009-02-26","date_to":"2009-02-26","blog_url":"http:\/\/www.tibetcm.com\/","campaign_url":"http:\/\/www.pen.org\/viewmedia.php\/prmMID\/3326\/prmID\/172","background":" On 16 November, 2009, International Campaign for Tibet reported that internet writer, editor and an official in a Chinese government environmental department had been sentenced to 15 years in prison on charges of disclosing state secrets.<\/p>\n Some of the charges are believed to relate to content on his website, Chodme (\u2018Butter-Lamp\u2019, www.tibetcm.com<\/a>), which aims to protect Tibetan culture, and passing on information about last year\u2019s protests in Tibet.<\/p>\n Thirty-nine year old Kunchok Tsephel was detained in the early hours of the morning on February 26, 2009. His house was ransacked and his computer, camera and mobile phone seized. His family had no idea where he was until last week they were summoned to court on November 12 to hear the verdict of 15 years imprisonment after a closed-door trial at the Intermediate People\u2019s Court of Kanlho (Chinese: Gannan) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu province.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/kunchok-tsephel","country":"China","lat":"36.189910","lon":"103.908691"}},{"item":{"name":"Kunga Tsayang","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/gangnyi.jpg","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2009-03-17","date_to":"2009-03-17","campaign_url":"http:\/\/freekunga.com\/","background":" On 19 November 2009, the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy reported that blogger and photographer Kunga Tsayang (Pen Name: Gangnyi) had been sentenced to five years in prison.<\/p>\n Twenty-year old Kunga Tsayang, who writes under the pen-name Gangnyi meaning Sun of Snowland is a popular writer, blogger and photographer who is passionate about the environment. He was taken from Labrang monastery in Gansu province on March 17, 2009, by police. <\/p>\n Kunga Tsayang, who is a monk, was born in Chikdril (Chinese: Jiuzhi) county in Golog (Chinese: Guoluo) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (TAP), Qinghai province, and educated at the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics at Labrang monastery and in Beijing. He is thought to have been detained as a result of his essays on a website named \u201cJottings\u201d or \u201cRough Notes\u201d (Tibetan:Zin-dris). <\/p>\n Kunga wrote essays including: \u201cWho are the true splittists?\u201d, \u201cWho is supporting us?\u201d \u201cLhasa is Lhasa no more\u201d, \u201cChina must apologize to His Holiness the Dalai Lama\u201d, \u201cTibetan people, we must clearly understand the truth about AIDS\u201d, and \u201cWe, Tibetans, are the real witnesses\u201d. Kunga Tsayang is also a photographer for Golok Nianbao Yuze Association of Environmental Protection.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/kunga-tsayang","country":"China","lat":"34.930378","lon":"102.974854"}},{"item":{"name":"Li Zhi","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2003-12-01","date_to":"2011-12-01","background":" Li was sentenced to 8 year imprisonment in Sichuan in December 2003 under the charge of \"subversion of state power\". He sent an article to an overseas website and discussed corruption problem concerning high ranked government official in Sichuan in July 2003. <\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/li-zhi","city":"Sichuan","country":"China","lat":"30.656816","lon":"104.073486"}},{"item":{"name":"Liu Xiaobo","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/liuxiaobo_s.jpg","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2008-12-08","date_to":"2008-12-08","blog_url":"http:\/\/www.boxun.com\/hero\/liuxb\/","campaign_url":"http:\/\/www.gopetition.com\/petitions\/free-liu-xiaobo\/sign.html","background":" On December 8, 2008, Chinese authorities arrested blogger, writer, and PEN Member Liu Xiaobo after he co-authored Charter 08<\/a>, a manifesto calling for greater freedoms and democracy in China, which was signed by hundreds citizens from all walks of life. This arrest also stemmed from political essays he posted on the Internet. <\/p>\n Almost a year after his detention, Liu was formally arrested and charged with \"inciting subversion of state power\" on June 23, 2009. He appealed and was denied on February 11, 2010, by The Beijing High People's Court, which upheld an 11-year prison sentence for his writings and activities. <\/p>\n In 2004, Reporters Without Borders honored Liu's human rights work, awarding him the Fondation de France Prize as a defender of press freedom.<\/p>\n On January 18, 2010, Liu was nominated for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize by V\u00e1clav Havel, Dalai Lama, Andr\u00e9 Glucksmann, Vartan Gregorian, Mike Moore, Karel Schwarzenberg, Desmond Tutu, and Grigory Yavlinsky.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/liu-xiaobo","city":"Beijing","country":"China","lat":"39.901309","lon":"116.400146"}},{"item":{"name":"Liu Xiaoyuan","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Liu_Xiaoyuan.jpg","status":"Threatened","date_from":"2009-02-16","date_to":"2009-02-16","background":" His law firm, Yatong Law Firm, was forced to shut down for six months in Feb 2009 and he was forced to leave the firm in March 2009. <\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/liu-xiaoyuan","city":"Beijing","country":"China","lat":"39.336563","lon":"115.839844"}},{"item":{"name":"Nymla Wangchuk","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2009-10-01","date_to":"2009-10-01","background":" He was arrested on October 1 2009 together with two other QQ users, Gyaltsen<\/strong> and Yeshe Namkha in Sogdzong county for allegedly sending information about Tibet to contacts abroad via the Internet.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/nymla-wangchuk","city":"Sogdzong","country":"China","lat":"31.877558","lon":"93.777924"}},{"item":{"name":"Peng Wenle","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Peng_Wenle.jpg","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2009-08-25","date_to":"2009-08-25","blog_url":"http:\/\/pgf6481157.blog.163.com","background":" Peng Wenle ran a blog dedicated to helping parents find their children who have been kidnapped and sold.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/peng-wenle","city":"Beijing","country":"China","lat":"39.908173","lon":"116.397947"}},{"item":{"name":"Tagyal","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/shogdung.jpg","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2010-04-23","date_to":"2010-04-23","blog_url":"http:\/\/www.sangdhor.com\/list_c.asp?id=1484","campaign_url":"http:\/\/is.gd\/cpRGa","background":" Tibetan scholar and writer, Tagyal (Pen Name: Shogdung), was detained on 23 April under suspicion of \u201cinciting separatism\u201d. He is a prisoner of conscience, at high risk of torture and other ill-treatment.<\/p>\n Tagyal is a well-known Tibetan scholar, aged 47, who writes under the pen name Shogdung. On 23 April, security officials took him from his workplace, the Nationalities Publishing House, in Xining, the capital of Qinghai Province in China. Later the same day, the officials went to his home and confiscated two computers. Around 2.30 am the next morning they returned to his home, informing his family that he was being held under suspicion of \u201cinciting separatism\u201d.<\/p>\n Tagyal is believed to be held in No.1 Detention Center in Xining (also known as Ershilipu Detention Center). Despite several attempts, no one has been able to visit him. Tibetans in police custody, particularly those detained on charges of \u201cinciting separatism\u201d, are frequently tortured and otherwise ill-treated. Tagyal suffers from poor eye- sight and digestive problems.<\/p>\n Tagyal\u2019s detention was first publicized on a blog that has since been blocked. The blog suggested that his detention was prompted by the publication of an open letter that he wrote on 17 April, which was signed by seven other Tibetan scholars and artists. The letter expresses condolences to the victims of an earthquake that struck Qinghai on 14 April. No other signatory is known to have been detained. Tagyal\u2019s recently published book, The Line between Sky and Earth, which describes Tibet in the wake of the unrest in 2008 as \u201ca place of terror\u201d, may also be a reason for his detention.<\/p>\n The authorities closed down his family-run bookshop on 12 April, leaving the family without a source of income. <\/p>\n (Source: Amnesty International)<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/tagyal","city":"Xining","country":"China","lat":"36.617085","lon":"101.778208"}},{"item":{"name":"Tang Lin","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2010-05-19","date_to":"2011-05-19","background":" A member of the \"kidney stone babies parent\". He was arrested and punished with one-year reform-through labour by the Chongqing city government in May 2010 because of his discussion in a QQ group.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/tang-lin","city":"Chongqing","country":"China","lat":"29.562686","lon":"106.551234"}},{"item":{"name":"Tao Haidong","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2003-01-01","date_to":"2010-01-01","background":" Tao called for social and political reform by writing online. In Jan 2003, he was sentenced to 7 year imprisonment under the charge of \"inciting subversion of state power\" at Urumqi court.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/tao-haidong","city":"Urumqi","country":"China","lat":"43.782669","lon":"87.586517"}},{"item":{"name":"Tsering Woeser","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/woeser.jpg","status":"Threatened","date_from":"2009-08-21","date_to":"2009-08-21","blog_url":"http:\/\/woeser.middle-way.net\/","background":" Woeser, who, like many Tibetans, goes by a single name, is a Tibetan writer and blogs extensively on ethnic minority issue in China. Recently she were interrogated by police after she has initiated a signature campaign for the release of Uighur professor of Minzu University of China and founder of Uighurbiz<\/a>, IIham Tohti.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/tsering-woeser","city":"Beijing","country":"China","lat":"39.908173","lon":"116.397947"}},{"item":{"name":"Wang Shuai","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/wangshuai.jpg","status":"Released","date_from":"2009-03-06","date_to":"2009-03-15","background":" A 24 year-old netizen Wang Shuai was jailed for 8 days for posting\npictures that mocked at illegal land requisition in Henan Ningbao\ncounty in 6 March, 2009.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/wang-shuai","city":"Henan","country":"China","lat":"35.713216","lon":"116.191406"}},{"item":{"name":"Wang Yi","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/wang_yi.jpg","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2010-11-15","date_to":"2010-11-15","blog_url":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/wangyi09","background":" According to Chinese Human Rights Defenders' tweet<\/a> human rights activist Wang Yi<\/a>, real name Cheng Jianping \u7a0b\u5efa\u840d, was sentenced to one year labour re-education for forwarding a political satire post about the anti-Japanese Protest in Twitter.\n<\/p> Before the labour re-education determination came out, Wang Yi was detained in a hostel at XinXiang City, Henan Province. She was escorted to the police station on 15 of November by 6-7 police and forced to sign up the one year labour re-education determination issued by the XinXiang city Labour Re-education Committee. The determination stated that she had \u201cdisturbed the public order\u201d. Wang Yi refused to sign the paper. <\/p>\n On 17 of October, Wang Yi retweeted a post by Hua Chunhui<\/a> who satirically challenged the anti-Japanese angry youths in China by inviting them to destroy the Japan pavilion in Shanghai Expo. She added a comment, \u201cAngry youth, come forward and break the pavilion!\u201d in her retweet. <\/p>\n The police interpreted her satire as a public order disturbance and asked the Labour Re-education committee to sentence her to one year labour camp, from November 15 2010 to November 9 2011 in Zhenzhou Shibali river labour re-education camp. <\/p>\n According to Xiaoyong<\/a> tweets, Wang Yi has became an online activist since 2006 and has helped a number of human rights activists to raise fund and participated in a number of flash mob actions. <\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/wang-yi","city":"Henan","country":"China","lat":"33.086326","lon":"114.013184"}},{"item":{"name":"Wu Baoquan","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/wuboquan.jpg","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2008-04-17","date_to":"2008-04-17","background":" Wu Baoquan (\u5434\u4fdd\u5168) exposed the land requisition\nproblem of the Ordos city government and received a 2 year sentence for\ndefaming the local government.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/wu-baoquan","city":"Ordos","country":"China","lat":"38.685510","lon":"106.171875"}},{"item":{"name":"Xu Lai","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/qianliexian.jpg","status":"Threatened","date_from":"2009-02-14","date_to":"2009-02-14","blog_url":"http:\/\/blog.ifeng.com\/1738385.html","background":" Xu Lai was stabbed in February 14, 2009 after a public talk in a bookstore. The attacker, Yang Chun, arrested in June, admitted that he stabbed Xu because of a post he had written that defaminated his friend's reputation. Yang was sentenced to 4.5 year in Aug 2009. <\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/xu-lai","country":"China","lat":"37.718590","lon":"117.597656"}},{"item":{"name":"Xu Wei","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/xu_zhang_etc.jpg","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2001-03-03","date_to":"2001-03-03","background":" Xu Wei was a reporter in Beijing before he was arrested in March 2001. He founded the \"New youth association\" with Yang Zili, Jin Haike and Zhang Honghai and advocated political reform by writing online articles. On September 28, 2001, they were tried by the Beijing Intermediate People's Court on charges of inciting subversion of state power. Xu was eventually sentenced to 10 year imprisonment in May 28, 2003. <\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/xu-wei","city":"Beijing","country":"China","lat":"39.908173","lon":"116.397947"}},{"item":{"name":"Yan Zhengxue","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/yan_ZX.jpg","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2007-04-01","date_to":"2007-04-01","background":" Yan is a writer from Zhejiang province. He was sentenced to three years in jail in April 2007 for having \u201cused the internet, discussion forums and speeches to publish distorted facts, attack and vilify the state power, and incite subversion of state power and overthrow of the socialist system.\u201d<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/yan-zhengxue","city":"Zhejiang","country":"China","lat":"30.273300","lon":"120.151978"}},{"item":{"name":"Yeshe Namkha","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2009-10-01","date_to":"2009-10-01","background":" He was arrested on October 1 2009 together with two other QQ users, Gyaltsen<\/strong> and Nymia Wangchuk in Sogdzong county for allegedly sending information about Tibet to contacts abroad via the Internet.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/yeshe-namkha","city":"Sogdzong","country":"China","lat":"31.885028","lon":"93.781443"}},{"item":{"name":"You Jingyou","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/You.jpg","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2009-07-05","date_to":"2009-07-05","blog_url":"http:\/\/24hour.blogbus.com\/logs\/42221617.html","background":"