Yu Wensheng's Writings Deemed to Have Incited Subversion
Yu Wensheng (余文生) was civil rights lawyer based in Beijing. His clients included Wang Quanzhang (王全璋), another civil rights lawyer who was also convicted of speech-related offenses . Yu was awarded the Franco-German Prize for Human Rights and the Rule of Law on November 21, 2018. According to PRC government documents, on January 20, 2018, Yu was detained by the Public Security Bureau of Beijing, Shijingshan Division on suspicion of committing the crime of obstructing an official in the exercise of their duty. On January 24, 2018, he was taken into criminal detention by the Public Security Bureau of Tongshan District, Xuzhou on suspicion of committing the crime of inciting subversion of state power. On the 27th of that month he was ordered placed under residential confinement at a designated location. On April 19, 2018, the People's Procuratorate of Xuzhou authorized his arrest on suspicion of committing the crimes of inciting subversion of state power and obstructing an official i