Recently, some netizens posted that he Jiankui, the person involved in the controversial "gene editing baby" case and former associate professor of Southern University of science and technology, has been released from prison. The reporter of Beijing Youth Daily called he Jiankui on the 7th. The person who answered the phone claimed to be he Jiankui. He Jiankui said it was inconvenient to answer the phone and didn't respond. Then he hung up < p > the reporter of Beiqing daily noted that the people's Court of Luohu District, Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province made a judgment on a civil case in which he Jiankui was the plaintiff in November 2021. The judgment showed that he Jiankui was subject to administrative control on suspicion of a criminal crime in November 2018. He Jiankui was criminally detained in January 2019 and finally sentenced to three years' imprisonment. In November 2018, he Jiankui was subject to administrative control on suspicion of a criminal offence. In January 2019, he Jiankui was criminally detained and finally sentenced to three years' imprisonment. In June 2021, he Jiankui, who is still in prison, learned about the relevant situation through his spouse, so he filed a lawsuit with the court < p > on December 30, 2019, the case of "gene editing baby" involving he Jiankui and other three defendants was publicly pronounced in the first instance of Shenzhen Nanshan District People's court

court trial found that since 2016, He Jiankui, former associate professor of South University of science and technology, learned that human embryo gene editing technology can gain commercial benefits, that is, conspiring with Zhang Renli, a medical institution in Guangdong Province, and Qin Jinzhou, a medical institution in Shenzhen. In knowing that it violates the relevant state regulations and medical ethics, it still takes the name of the CCR5 who can edit the human embryo gene to give birth to immune AIDS. Human embryo gene editing technology, whose effectiveness has not been strictly verified, is used in assisted reproductive medicine. He Jiankui and others forged ethical review materials, recruited men for HIV infected couples to carry out gene editing and assisted reproduction, in order to impersonate and hide the truth, by unwitting doctors transferred the gene editing embryos through assisted reproductive technology implanted into the human body, resulting in 2 pregnancies, successively gave birth to 3 gene editing babies. p> < p > the court held that the three defendants did not obtain the qualification of doctors, pursued fame and wealth, deliberately violated the relevant national regulations on scientific research and medical management, crossed the bottom line of scientific research and medical ethics, rashly applied gene editing technology to human assisted reproductive medicine, disturbed the order of medical management, and the circumstances were serious, and their behavior constituted the crime of illegal medical practice. According to the facts, nature, circumstances and harm to society of the three defendants, he Jiankui was sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of three years and a fine of 3 million yuan; Zhang Renli was sentenced to two years' imprisonment and a fine of one million yuan; Qin Jinzhou was sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of one year and six months, suspended for two years and fined 500000 yuan < p > (Beijing Youth Daily reporter Li Tiezhu Qu Chang)