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Search Results Detail for 'Shi Tao'
 
Personal Details
CECC Record Number: 2004-05482   Ethnic Group: Han
Detention Status: DET   Sex: M
Issue Category: spch   Age at Detention: 36
Main Name: Shi Tao   Religion:
Chinese Characters (Main Name): 师涛 Occupation: journalist, newspaper
Alternate Name (Lay or Pen):   Affiliation:
Additional Name(s): Nice Ears (pen name)   Residence Province: Shanxi Province
Pinyin Name:   Residence Prefecture: Taiyuan Shi (pref.)
  Residence County: (na)
Imprisonment or Detention Details
Date of Detention: 2004/11/24
Current Prison: Yinchuan Prison
Sentence Length (Years): 10
Sentence Length (Months):
Sentence Length (Weeks):
Sentence Length (Days):
Province Where Imprisoned (or Detained): Ningxia Hui Auto. Region
Prefecture Where Imprisoned (or Detained): Yinchuan Shi (pref.)
County Where Imprisoned (or Detained): Tinghu Dist.
Legal Process
Legal Process: chg/tri/sent   Formal Arrest Date: 2004/12/14
Trial Court:   Trial Date: 2005/03/11
Sentence Court:   Sentence Date: 2005/04/27
Appeal Court: Hunan High People's Court   Appeal Date:
Appeal Ruling Court: Hunan High People's Court   Appeal Ruling Date: 2005/06/02
Charge (Statute): CL97-art398   Sent. Ends Per PRC:
  Actual Date Released:
Short Summary
The Changsha Intermediate People's Court in Hunan province sentenced poet and journalist Shi Tao to 10 years' imprisonment on April 27, 2005, for disclosing state secrets to foreigners, a crime under Article 111 of the Criminal Law. The court found that Shi, then editorial director of Contemporary Trade News in Hunan, was informed at an editorial meeting about a secret Communist Party and government order. Reporters Without Borders said the order warned journalists about reporting during the 15th anniversary of the Tiananmen democracy protests. Shi e-mailed his notes about the order to the U.S.-based online newspaper "Democracy Forum." The Hunan High People's Court rejected Shi's appeal on June 2, 2005. Shi's conviction was based in part on evidence provided by Yahoo!'s China office. In November 2007, Yahoo! agreed to pay his family's legal expenses. Shi was detained on November 24, 2004, and arrested on December 14. In August 2010, Dui Hua reported that Shi was moved from a prison in Hunan province to the Yinchuan Prison in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous region in order facilitate family visits.