List of Chinese dissidents
Detained and jailed people
Many Chinese political activists have been detained or jailed or exiled for their pro-democracy or rights defending activities. They include the following notable activists.

List of Chinese dissidents

Section Title: Detained and jailed people
Table Section Text: Many Chinese political activists have been detained or jailed or exiled for their pro-democracy or rights defending activities. They include the following notable activists.

Name	Occupation	Detained	Allegations	Sentence	Notes

Ai Weiwei	artist and activist	2011	alleged economic crimes	Fine of 2.4 million for tax evasion	Detained for 80 days from April 3. to 22 June 2011

Bao Tong	government official	1989	revealing state secrets and counter-revolutionary propagandizing	7 years	Sentenced 1992. Prison: 1989–1996. As of 2009, under surveillance.

Bao Zunxin	historian	1989	counterrevolutionary propaganda and incitement	5 years	Sentenced 1991. Released 1992, died 2007.

Cai Lujun	businessman, writer	2003	incitement to subversion	3 years	Released 2006, sought political asylum in Taiwan in 2007.

Chen Pokong	author, commentator, democracy activist	1989, 1993	"carrying out counter-revolutionary propaganda and incitement", illegally crossing state borders	3 years, 2 years	Sentenced 1989 and 1993.

Cheng Jianping	online activist	2010	disturbing social order	1 year	Reeducation through labor for a sarcastic post on Twitter.

Gao Zhisheng	lawyer	~2006	disturbing public order	5 yrs suspended	Illegally detained and tortured in 2007; forcibly removed from family home in Shaanxi in 2009. 'Disappeared' by government in 2009, reappeared in 2010.

Guo Quan	professor	2008	subversion of state power	10 years	Sentenced 2009. Awaiting appeal.

He Depu	writer	2002	"incited subversion" on the Internet	8 years	Sentenced 2003. Released 2011.

Hu Jia	activist	2007	inciting subversion of state power	3.5 years	Arrested, imprisoned, and sentenced in 2008. Released 2011.

Huang Qi	webmaster, anti-human trafficking activist	2000	inciting subversion	5 years	Sentenced 2003. Accused of violating articles 103, 105, 55 and 56. Released 2005.

2008	illegal possession of state secrets	3 years	Sentenced 2009. Arrested after essay regarding the Sichuan earthquake. Released 2011.

Ilham Tohti	economist	2014	inciting subversion	life	Detained in January 2014 after criticizing Beijing's response to 2013 Tiananmen Square attack.

Jiang Lijun	writer	2002	inciting subversion of the state power	4 years	Sentenced 2003. Arrested for "Internet writing and publishing dissident articles". Also sentenced to 'deprivation of political rights' for 1 year.

Jiang Rong	writer	1989	Released 1991.

Jiang Yanyong	doctor	2004	Detained and released in 2004. Broke story on SARS epidemic. Wrote critical letter regarding Tiananmen.

Jiang Yefei	political cartoonist	2015	incitement to subversion	Escaped from China to Thailand in 2004, he was granted political asylum by the Canadian Government, but was arrested by Thailand Immigration authorities on illegal entry.

Li Hai	student	1994	9 years	Sentenced in 1995. Released 2004.

Li Zhi	civil servant	2003	inciting subversion	8 years	Sentenced 2003. Yahoo! helped the government against him. Expected release in 2011.

Liao Yiwu	writer, musician	1990	poem "Massacre" about Tiananmen Square	4 years, permanent blacklist from travel	Under a 2011 'travel ban' for 'national security' reasons.

Liu Di	student	2002	Released in 2003

Liu Xiaobo	professor of literature	2008	inciting subversion of state power	11 years	Sentenced 2009. Died July 13, 2017. Recipient of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize.

Qin Yongmin	human rights activist	1998 2018	inciting subversion of state power	12 years 13 years	Sentenced 1998 and July 2018. Co-founder of the Democracy Party of China.

Shi Tao	journalist, writer, poet	2004	illegally supplying state secrets to overseas organizations	10 years	Sentenced 2005. Yahoo! helped the government against him. Released 2013.

Tan Zuoren	writer	2008	3 years	Sentenced 2009.

2010	subversion of state power	5 years	Sentenced 2010.

Tang Baiqiao	activist	1989	spreading counterrevolutionary propaganda; inciting counterrevolutionary activities; defection to the enemy; treason.	3 years	Released under international pressure 1991. Fled to Hong Kong, then U.S. 1992.

Wang Bingzhang	doctor	2002	spying, terrorism	life	Sentenced 2003.

Wang Dan	professor of history	1989	Tiananmen activities	4 years	Sentenced 1991. Released on parole in 1993.

1995	11 years	Sentenced 1996. Released on medical parole to U.S. in 1998; currently in Taiwan.

Wang Quanzhang	lawyer	2015	subversion of state power	4½ years	Put on trial in December 2018, sentenced in January 2019.

Wang Xiaoning	engineer	2002	incitement to subvert state power	10 years	Sentenced 2003. Yahoo! helped the government against him. Expected release 2012

Wang Youcai	1989

~1998	subversion	11 years	Released and exiled in 2004; currently in the United States.

Wei Jingsheng	electrician	1979	passing military secrets	15 years	Released and jailed again in 1993; released for "medical reasons" and deported to the US in 1997.

Wu Gan	blogger	2015	subversion of state power	8 years

Xu Zhiyong	lawyer, lecturer	2014	gathering crowds to disrupt public order	4 years	For his role of founding New Citizens' Movement and in protests.

Yang Jianli	activist, scholar	2002	alleged espionage & illegal entry	5 years	The Chinese government placed Yang on a 1994 blacklist of 49 pro-democracy activists barred from returning to China. Yang used another person's passport to enter China in 2002.

Yuan Hongbing	jurist, writer	1994	Detained and forced to leave China in 1994; travelled to and sought political asylum in Australia in 2004.

Yue Xin	activist	2018	unknown, likely in response to protests organized by Yue	unknown	Yue went missing in October 2018, after she and fifty other students were detained by Chinese authorities after participating in Jasic Incident.

Zeng Jinyan	blogger	2006	suspected of harming state security	Under house arrest with husband Hu Jia from August 2006 - March 2007; currently under house arrest again, since May 2007.

Zhao Changqing	teacher of history	1989	Tiananmen activities	Released after about 1/2 year.

1998	workers rights activity	3 years

2002	attempted subversion of state power	5 years	Sentenced 2003.

Zhao Lianhai	food safety worker, activist	2009	inciting social disorder	2.5 years	Sentenced 2010.

Sentence(s)

Zhao Lianhai, a food safety worker and activist, was a Chinese dissident.

final_sentence: Zhao Lianhai, a food safety worker and activist, was a Chinese dissident.