Liao Yiwu |
writer, musician |
1990 |
poem "Massacre" about Tiananmen Square |
4 years, permanent blacklist |
Under a 2011 'travel ban' for 'national security' reasons. |
Bao Tong |
government official |
1989 |
revealing state secrets and counter-revolutionary propagandizing |
7 years |
Sentenced 1992. Prison: 1989–1996. As of 2009, under surveillance. |
Tang Baiqiao |
activist |
1989 |
spreading counterrevolutionary propaganda; inciting counterrevolutionary activities; defection to the enemy; treason. |
3 years |
Released under international pressure 1991. Fled to Hong Kong, then U.S. 1992. |
Zhao Lianhai |
food safety worker, activist |
2009 |
inciting social disorder |
2.5 years |
Sentenced 2010.[1][2] |
Bao Zunxin |
historian |
1989 |
counterrevolutionary propaganda and incitement |
5 years |
Sentenced 1991. Released 1992, died 2007. |
Cai Lujun |
businessman, writer |
2003 |
incitement to subversion |
3 years |
Released 2006, sought political asylum in Taiwan in 2007. |
Gao Zhisheng |
lawyer |
~2006 |
disturbing public order |
5 yrs suspended |
Illegally detained and tortured in 2007; forcibly removed from family home in Shaanxi in 2009.[3]
'Disappeared' by government in 2009, reappeared in 2010. The Chinese foreign minister claimed a prison sentence was for
'subversion'.[4][5] |
Guo Quan |
professor |
2008 |
subversion of state power |
10 years |
Sentenced 2009. Awaiting appeal. |
He Depu |
writer |
2002 |
"incited subversion" on the Internet[6] |
8 years |
Sentenced 2003. Expected release 2010. |
Hu Jia |
activist |
2007 |
inciting subversion of state power |
3.5 years |
Arrested, imprisoned, and sentenced in 2008. Expected release 2011. |
Huang Qi |
webmaster, anti-human trafficking activist |
2000 |
inciting subversion |
5 years |
Sentenced 2003. Accused of violating articles 103, 105, 55 and 56. Released 2005. |
2008 |
illegal possession of state secrets |
3 years |
Sentenced 2009. Arrested after essay regarding the Sichuan Earthquake. |
Jiang Lijun |
writer |
2002 |
inciting subversion of the state power |
4 years |
Sentenced 2003. Arrested for "Internet writing and publishing dissident articles". Also sentenced to 'deprivation of political
rights' for 1 year. |
Jiang Yanyong |
doctor |
2004 |
|
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Detained and released in 2004. Broke story on SARS epidemic. Wrote critical letter regarding Tiananmen. |
Li Hai |
student |
1994 |
|
9 years |
Sentenced in 1995. Released 2004. |
Li Zhi |
civil servant |
2003 |
inciting subversion |
8 years |
Sentenced 2003. Yahoo! helped the government against him. Expected release in 2011. |
Liu Di |
student |
2002 |
|
|
Released in 2003 |
Liu Xiaobo |
professor of literature |
2008 |
inciting subversion of state power |
11 years |
Sentenced 2009. Expected release 2020. Recipient of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. |
Lü Jiamin |
writer |
1989 |
|
|
Released 1991. |
Shi Tao |
journalist, writer, poet |
2004 |
illegally supplying state secrets to overseas organizations |
10 years |
Sentenced 2005. Yahoo! helped the government against him. Expected release 2014.[7][8] |
Tan Zuoren |
writer |
2008 |
|
3 years |
Sentenced 2009. |
2010 |
subversion of state power |
5 years |
Sentenced 2010. |
Wang Dan |
professor of history |
1989 |
Tiananmen activities |
4 years |
Sentenced 1991. Released on parole in 1993. |
1995 |
|
11 years |
Sentenced 1996. Released on medical parole to U.S. in 1998; currently in Taiwan. |
Wang Xiaoning |
engineer |
2002 |
incitement to subvert state power |
10 years |
Sentenced 2003. Yahoo! helped the government against him. Expected release 2012[9] |
Wang Bingzhang |
doctor |
2002 |
spying, terrorism |
life |
Sentenced 2003. |
Wang Youcai |
|
1989 |
|
|
[citation needed] |
~1998 |
subversion |
11 years |
Released and exiled in 2004; currently in the United States. |
Wei Jingsheng |
electrician |
1979 |
passing military secrets |
15 years |
Released and jailed again in 1993; released for "medical reasons" and deported to the US in 1997. |
Yuan Hongbing |
jurist, writer |
1994 |
|
|
Detained and forced to leave China in 1994; travelled to and sought political asylum in Australia in 2004. |
Zhao Changqing |
teacher of history |
1989 |
Tiananmen activities |
|
Released after about 1/2 year. |
1998 |
workers rights activity |
3 years |
|
2002 |
attempted subversion of state power |
5 years |
Sentenced 2003.[10] |
Zeng Jinyan |
blogger |
2006 |
suspected of harming state security |
|
Under house arrest with husband Hu Jia from August 2006 - March 2007; currently under house arrest again, since May 2007.[11] |
Cheng Jianping |
online activist |
2010 |
disturbing social order |
1 year |
Reeducation through labor for a sarcastic post on Twitter.[12] |
Ai Weiwei |
artist and activist |
2011 |
alleged economic crimes |
|
Detained for 80 days from April 3.[13] to 22 June 2011 |