Kong Youping

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Kong Youping ( Chinese  孔佑平 , * 1955 in Anshan ) is a Chinese factory worker , author and online dissident . He was arrested in 2003 for several publications critical of the regime and published on foreign websites and sentenced to 15 years in prison in 2004.

Life

Kong Youping attended middle school. Kong Youping worked as a simple factory worker and union official in a state-owned factory in Liaoning until he was arrested . After advocating for laid-off workers, he was fired from both the factory and the union. In the late 1990s he participated in an attempt to found an offshoot of the Chinese Democratic Party in Liaoning. He was arrested in 1999 for "inciting to undermine state authority" and sentenced to one year in prison for " subversive activities ". He later used five articles and seven poems to reconsider the Beijing Spring and denounced the corruption of officials in his country. He also demanded the release of the online dissident Liu Di . On December 13, 2003, he was arrested. He was the 48th Chinese person arrested for writing on the Internet. After his arrest, his daughter sought support for Kong Youping. Because of "subversion of state power" that sentenced him Intermediate People's Court in Shenyang initially to 15 years imprisonment. On appeal, the sentence was reduced to ten years' imprisonment and four years of deprivation of political rights. Kong Youping is currently serving his sentence in Anshan Prison. His health has been compromised as a result of his imprisonment. Kong Youping is an honorary member of the Independent Chinese PEN Center .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e See Independent Chinese PEN Center: Writers in Prison Committee , accessed August 30, 2011.
  2. ↑ a b See Labor Rights Now: Key Labor Activists Imprisoned in China , accessed August 30, 2011.
  3. ↑ Cf. IHLO.org: Imprisoned Labor Rights Activists in China ( Memento of the original from October 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ihlo.org archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 30, 2011.
  4. ↑ See China Democracy Party: Rally on Strongly Protesting against CCP's Arresting CDP Member Kong Youping , accessed on August 30, 2011.
  5. ↑ a b c d See International Freedom of Expression Exchange of December 23, 2003: Page no longer available , search in web archives: Kong Youping arrested@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.ifex.org , viewed on August 30, 2011.
  6. ↑ See Reporters Without Borders : List of online dissidents currently imprisoned in China (PDF, 70 kB), accessed on August 30, 2011.
  7. ↑ a b See PEN American Center: Kong Youping ( memento of June 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) , viewed on August 30, 2011.
  8. ↑ See Threatened Voices: Kong Youping , accessed August 30, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Kong Youping
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kong, c = 孔佑平 (Chinese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese author and dissident
DATE OF BIRTH 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Anshan (Liaoning)