Born in 1965, Mao Yuejun (毛岳君) was a worker with the Yueyang No. 5 Engineering Department of the Provincial No. 3 Construction Engineering Co., Ltd (岳阳市省建三公司五处工人), also described as a worker for the Provincial Construction Company in Yueyang. Human-rights documentation lists him among the defendants in the same post-June 1989 case as Hu Min and records a 12-year prison sentence.
The 1989 case
On the evening of June 7, 1989, thousands of Yueyang residents and students blocked the Beijing–Guangzhou railway with spare rails; crowds then marched and smashed the gates and nameplates of the Yueyang city government, and the Yueyang City Workers and Students Alliance (岳阳市工学联盟会) was founded with Hu Min as president. Song Yongyi’s case guide places the arrests on June 10, 1989, while the 2013 compendium and the Chinese Wikipedia Hunan chronology report June 9. Mao was one of eight arrested in this group — Hu Min, Guo Yunqiao, Mao Yuejun, Fan Lixin, Pan Qiubao, Wan Yuewang, Wang Zhaobo and Fan Fan — and, in the words of the case guide, “severely punished.” The group was convicted of hooliganism (流氓罪), with sentences ranging from three years to life. Quoted from CHRD: “Mao Yuejun (毛岳君): born in 1965, worker for the Provincial Construction Company in Yueyang, was sentenced to 12 years in prison in the same case as Hu Min.”
Evidence status
The documentary record supports Mao’s identity, employment and reported 12-year sentence. A 2013 Chinese-language compendium, 六四屠殺24周年祭, reports that he was released in 1996. That release report is PROBABLE because it rests on a single secondary source; the mechanism of early release is RESEARCH PENDING. The original court judgment (no case number located) and an official prison-release record have not been found; no release chronology is documented, and anything not documented is marked RESEARCH PENDING.
Current status: unknown (no release record located).
Sources
- Human Rights in China, “An Independent Report on the Situation of the June 4 Massacre Victims”
- Chinese Human Rights Defenders, “The Legacy of Tiananmen: 20 Years of Oppression, Activism and Hope” (June 1, 2009)
- Song Yongyi, “A Guide to the ‘Court Cases of the June 4th Protesters Against Government Violence’” (Laogai Research Foundation)
- Chinese Wikipedia, 六四事件中的湖南省
- 2013 compendium, “六四屠殺24周年祭” (paolongtao, Google Groups), incorporating the 1994 HRIC/HRW-Asia Hunan roster
Source provenance: Where both HRIC and CHRD are cited, they draw on the same Jiang Qisheng / 1994 Hunan prisoner-list evidence lineage rather than two independent investigations.