He Depu
He Depu (Chinese: 何德普; pinyin: Hé Dépǔ; born 28 October 1956) is a dissident in the People's Republic of China.
Biography
[edit | edit source]He was employed at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing. Political activist who took part in the Democracy Wall movement, he was founder of Beijing Youth magazine in 1979.[citation needed]
In 1998, he helped found the proscribed China Democracy Party, but lost his job at the Social Sciences Academy after standing as a candidate in local elections in 1990.[citation needed]
He Depu was tried in a two-hour hearing on 14 October 2002 for his links to the outlawed China Democracy Party, of which he is a member, and for posting essays on the Internet that "incited subversion."[1]
He was one of the 192 signatories of an Open Letter to the 16th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party in November 2002.[2]
On 4 November 2002, he was arrested,[3] and received an eight-year sentence for dissident activity on the Internet on 6 November 2003.[4]
In 2008, while in Beijing No. 2 Prison, his health began to deteriorate. He suffered from high blood pressure and did not receive appropriate treatment.[5] In August 2008 he sent a letter to International Olympic Committee head Jacques Rogge, decrying the conditions in Chinese prisons, which he claims to have worsened.[6]
He Depu was released from prison on 24 January 2011. The day of his release he was beaten by four police officers.[7]
References
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