Yu Haocheng / 于浩成 was a Chinese legal scholar and dissident intellectual associated with legal reform and constitutionalism.
Why he matters
Independent sources document Yu’s post-1989 arrest and detention, later travel restrictions, and continued legal-reform advocacy. A China Spring source anchor also places his article 国无法制最堪忧 in issue 94.
Custody and restrictions
Yu was reported arrested on June 27, 1989 and held at Qincheng. Later sources describe detention lasting about or more than one year; the exact release date remains unresolved. Travel restrictions continued until May 1994, when later reporting documents U.S. visiting-scholar travel.
Evidence and open questions
The current evidence baseline includes Amnesty International, the International Commission of Jurists, South China Morning Post reporting, UCLA institutional material, and the China Spring issue 94 source anchor. Primary-source gaps include the original detention and release records, personnel records, New Enlightenment materials, exact organizational tenure records, and documentation resolving later U.S. residency chronology.
Evidence note: This profile distinguishes independently documented facts from unresolved chronology and does not infer a release date from later events.
Media archive: Yu Haocheng — Media Profile & Archive.