Huang Qi
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Huang Qi, owner and webmaster of the Internet site www.tianwang.com, was imprisoned from June 2000 to June 2005.
Huang was arrested on June 3 2000 – the day before the 11th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre – and was charged under articles 103 and 105 of the criminal code. He was accused of posting on his website articles about the massacre written by dissidents living abroad. He had set up the site to put out news about people who had disappeared in China. Huang was ultimately tried for "subversion" in August 2001. He had to wait until May 9 2003 to find out he had been sentenced to five years in prison.
Huang Qi was jailed in July 2000 at Chengdu's detention centre no.1. Former cellmates said he was beaten regularly and denied medicine he needed.
Huang and his wife, Zeng Li, set up and registered their website, www.6-4tianwang.com, in June 1998. For a fee, people could post information there about missing friends or family members, including those abducted in rural areas and sold into marriage. Huang managed the site, helped to decide on its content, and actively investigated cases, ultimately aiding in the rescue of several trafficked girls. The site won praise from many official Chinese media outlets – China Youth Daily called it one of the most significant Internet events in 1999 – and Chinese journalists visited Huang to learn how to "report the pain of the people."
Reporters Without Borders awarded its Cyber-Freedom Prize to Huang Qi in 2004.
On 4 June 2005, Huang Qi was released from jail after completing his sentence. He told Radio Free Asia that he wants to resume his web site dedicated to the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. “I will do my best to resume the Tianwang Web site. When it was first created it was for very few people. But I now realize that there are many like-minded people,” he said.
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External links
- RSF (http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=14001)
- IFEX (http://http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/147/)
- Radio Free Asia (http://www.rfa.org/english/news/politics/2005/06/06/china_cyberdissent/)zh:黃琦