THE THRILL OF FREEDOM
JIANG WEIPING
14 PEN Canada Annual Report 20/21
Jiang Weiping is a Chinese journalist who was jailed in 2000 for “illegally providing state secrets overseas and inciting the subversion of state power” after he exposed high-level government corruption in northeastern China. He was released in January 2006, eleven months before his sentence was set to expire. He is an Honorary Member of PEN Canada.
