CNHRA PERSON RECORD · CNHRA-P-666505
Zhang Lin
Born
Unknown
Occupation
Unknown
Role
Dissident · Political Activist
Record ID
CNHRA-P-666505
Biography
Zhang Lin is an Anhui democracy and rights activist engaged in labor, political and civic issues since 1989.[1]
A Tsinghua graduate, Zhang entered democratic advocacy in the 1980s, addressed labor and justice issues and signed Charter 08. CHRD recounts repeated imprisonment, labor re-education and autobiographical writing.[1]
CHRD and Front Line Defenders describe Zhang, lawyers and activists seeking his daughter’s return to school in Hefei in 2013 through advocacy, gatherings and hunger strikes.[1][2]
Case Summary
The profile records detention on July 19, 2013, arrest on August 22 and a three-and-a-half-year sentence in 2014 for disrupting public-place order. CHRD gives August 29 for sentencing and Front Line Defenders September 5.[1][2]
CHRD records two unsuccessful bail applications involving health and childcare, and family reports of eye problems and other illness.[1]
The profile’s later update records Zhang’s actual release on September 9, 2016 and relays earlier family expectations of release.[1]
Timeline
2013-07-19
Detained following schooling protests
Zhang was detained following his daughter’s exclusion from school and associated solidarity actions. CHRD connects the case to assembly and civic advocacy and records unsuccessful bail requests involving health and childcare.[1]
2014
Sentenced to three and a half years
2016-09-09
Released
The profile records release on this day and earlier family expectations of release. It had also reported health concerns and bail applications.[1]
Related Events
Sources
- [1]
CNHRA-S-545862Chinese Human Rights Defenders
Evidence location: Case table and background: daughter’s schooling, 2013 detention, 2014 sentence of three and a half years and 2016 release.
- [2]
CNHRA-S-703299Front Line Defenders
Evidence location: 2014 sentence entry; September 5 here differs from August 29 in CHRD, so year precision is retained.