(WiPC/IFEX) – According to information furnished to International PEN’s WiPC, Yang Tianshui was released on 25 January 2005. Yang was arrested on 24 December 2004 in Hangzhou, some 100 km south of Shanghai, on charges of “inciting subversion of state power”. Yang, aged 43, is a freelance writer who was imprisoned for 10 years for […]
(WiPC/IFEX) – According to information furnished to International PEN’s WiPC, Yang Tianshui was released on 25 January 2005. Yang was arrested on 24 December 2004 in Hangzhou, some 100 km south of Shanghai, on charges of “inciting subversion of state power”.
Yang, aged 43, is a freelance writer who was imprisoned for 10 years for “counter revolutionary activities” and detained twice since for breaking the provisions of an “Order for the Deprivation of Civil Liberties”.
WiPC notes that two other writers, Li Boguang and Shi Tao, remain imprisoned.
