Career
He published reports about problems of the transport facilities, the food supply and the housing shortage. He was arrest on 19 March 2003, during the Black Spring, a general crackdown on opposition activists. On 3 April, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Amnesty International declared him as a prisoner of conscience.
In 2007, International Society for Human Rights reported that he was in an acutely critical condition, having lost 60% of his former weight. He then resettled in Louisiana Rioja, Spain.
