Born in 1952, from Changsha (长沙人), Zhang Jingsheng (张京生) was sentenced to 13 years in prison; HRIC lists him in the Chishan Penitentiary (Hunan No. 1 Prison) group.
Name form: “Zhang Jingsheng” is standardized here because 京生 is jīngshēng; “Zhang Jinsheng” is retained only as the HRIC/S1 romanization variant, which drops the medial “g.” The charge wording was not located. HRIC records a 13-year sentence.
Earlier and later history: a 2013 secondary compendium reports that Zhang had previously received a four-year sentence in 1981 for editing unofficial publications during the Democracy Wall period; it also describes his 1989 activity as participation in the Workers’ Autonomous Federation and public speeches, reports the 13-year sentence, says he was released in 2001, and places him in Changsha afterward. These biographical additions are PROBABLE, single-secondary-source reporting; publication-title details are attributed to Tang Baiqiao and are not treated as independently verified here.
Evidence status
The documentary record presently supports Zhang Jingsheng’s identity and sentence as stated above. The charge wording, the original court judgment (no case number located) and the prison-release record have not yet been found, No release chronology is documented; 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.