Cai Lujun
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Cai Lujun is a Chinese
dissident
writer.
, Hebei Province. He was a owner a foreign trading company
and a freelance writer. He graduated from secondary school.
Cai became one of the first person in China to be arrested for posting articles on the internet
.
He was accused of posting a series of articles online under the pen name "盼民主 (Pan Minzhu)"("expecting for democracy") criticizing the Chinese government. Cai was put under house arrest on 22 February 2003. He was found guilty of “incitement to subversion” and sentenced to three years in prison by Shijiazhuang
Intermediate People's Court
on 30 October 2003.
In 2006 he was released from prison. He now lives in exile in Taiwan
since 2007.
China
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dissident
Dissident
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writer.
Biography
Cai Lujun was born in Feixiang CountyFeixiang County
Feixiang County is a county of Hebei, China. It is under the administration of Handan City.-Administrative Divisions:Towns:*Feixiang Town , Tiantaishan Townships:...
, Hebei Province. He was a owner a foreign trading company
Trading company
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and a freelance writer. He graduated from secondary school.
Cai became one of the first person in China to be arrested for posting articles on the internet
Internet
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.
He was accused of posting a series of articles online under the pen name "盼民主 (Pan Minzhu)"("expecting for democracy") criticizing the Chinese government. Cai was put under house arrest on 22 February 2003. He was found guilty of “incitement to subversion” and sentenced to three years in prison by Shijiazhuang
Shijiazhuang
Shijiazhuang is the capital and largest city of North China's Hebei province. Administratively a prefecture-level city, it is about south of Beijing...
Intermediate People's Court
Intermediate people's court
An intermediate people's court is the second lowest local people's court in the People's Republic of China. According to the Organic Law of the People's Courts of the People's Republic of China, the intermediate people's courts handle relevant important local cases in the first instance and hear...
on 30 October 2003.
In 2006 he was released from prison. He now lives in exile in Taiwan
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
since 2007.
Sources
- http://www.penchinese.net/en/wipc/cailijun.htm Independent Chinese pen writers, writers in prison.
- http://www.cecc.gov/pages/virtualAcad/index.phpd?showsingle=45625 Cai Lujun, Imprisoned for Posting Internet Articles, Released at End of Sentence
- http://videos.wittysparks.com/id/3813713622 Chinese Cyberdissident Cai Lujun on Freedom (CNNiReport)
- http://www.chinagfw.org/2007/06/blog-post_8779.html original court judgment