 Writer, literary editor, and environmentalist, detained by police in Chengdu on March 28, 2009, after investigating the deaths of schoolchildren in the May 2008 Sichuan earthquake. Tan had planned to publish his findings on the one-year anniversary of the quake. He was tried by the Intermediate People’s Court of Chengdu City on August 12, 2009, and on February 9, 2010, was convicted of “inciting subversion of state power.” Evidence cited by prosecutors included not Tan’s research into the quake, but instead an article he published on overseas Chinese web sites about the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. He was sentenced to five years in prison and three years’ deprivation of political rights, a sentence upheld by the Sichuan Provincial High People’s Court on June 9, 2010. He is currently being held in Ya'an Prison, Mingshan County, Sichuan Province. |
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