Media Profile & Archive
This archive accompanies the canonical profile of Huang Qi (黄琦), founder and publisher of the human-rights news website 64 Tianwang. It preserves source material documenting his internet publishing, detention and prosecution.
Core sources
- Committee to Protect Journalists — Chinese court sentences journalist Huang Qi to 12 years in prison (2019)
- Committee to Protect Journalists — Huang Qi case profile
Documented chronology
CPJ documents Huang’s role as an early independent internet publisher in mainland China. Huang and Zeng Li launched Tianwang in 1998. The site began as a missing-persons service and later reported on abuses of power, petitions, protests and other sensitive subjects.
CPJ reports that Huang was detained in June 2000 and later sentenced to five years in prison. Police detained him again on November 28, 2016. On July 29, 2019, the Mianyang Intermediate People’s Court sentenced him to 12 years in prison on state-secrets charges.
Research note
This archive attributes charges, sentences and official actions to the cited sources and does not infer motives or any later custody status not established by those sources.
Canonical profile
Huang Qi / 黄琦 — 64 Tianwang Publisher and Internet Press-Freedom Case