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Home > Zheng Yichun

Zheng Yichun
zheng yichunPoet, professor and freelance journalist, arrested December 3, 2004 in connection with 63 articles he had written for foreign-based publications and web sites. Zheng was convicted of “incitement to subversion of state power” on July 21, 2005 and sentenced to seven years in prison and three years’ deprivation of political rights. He is currently being held in Jinzhou Prison, Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province, where he is suffering from diabetes and cerebral thrombosis.
 
 
 


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