- He Depu
He Depu (zh-cp|c=何德普|p=Hé Dépǔ; born
October 28 ,1956 ) is a dissident in thePeople's Republic of China .Biography
He was employed at the
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences inBeijing . Political activist who took part in theDemocracy Wall movement, he was founder of "Beijing Youth" magazine in 1979.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.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." [cite news | url = http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=8475 | title = Reporters Without Borders concerned about health of cyberdissident He Depu |date = 2 March 2004 | publisher = Reporters sans frontiers ]He was one of the 192 signatories [cite news | url = http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=12035 | title = Cyberdissident Ouyang Yi released at the end of his sentence |date = 7 December 2004 | publisher = Reporters sans frontiers ] of an open letter to the Sixteenth National Congress of the
Communist Party of China in November 2002.On
November 4 ,2002 , he was arrested [cite news | url = http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=8244 | title = Call for clemency for dissident He Depu |date = 15 October 2003 | publisher = Reporters sans frontiers ] , and received an eight-year sentence for dissident activity on the Internet onNovember 6 ,2003 [cite news | url = http://www.rsf.org/print.php3?id_article=11775 | title = Cyber-dissident He Depu begins third year in prison |date = 4 November 2004 | publisher = Reporters sans frontiers ] .In 2008, he is still in prison and his health is deteriorating in Beijing No. 2 Prison. He suffers from high blood pressure and does not receive appropriate treatment. [ [http://www.hrichina.org/public/contents/press?revision%5fid=48320&item%5fid=48281 HRIC Case Update: Health at Risk for Jailed Democracy Activist He Depu] , Human Rights in China] In August 2008 he sent a letter to
International Olympic Committee headJacques Rogge , decrying the conditions in Chinese prisons, which he claims to have worsened. [http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iPIuAAmXGpvbqgSuPs2CdFiV7knw]References
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