Huang was imprisoned by the government from June 2000 to June 2005 and again arrested in July 2008 for " illegal possession of state secrets " after he helped the victims of the Sichuan earthquake . In November 2009 he was sentenced to three years of imprisonment . He was subsequently described as a political prisoner ; Amnesty International described him as a victim of vague state secrets laws . Huang was sentenced to twelve years in prison in July 2019 for leaking state secrets to foreigners
Sichuan earthquake
2008 Sichuan earthquake
Huang Qi