Evidence status: Documented profile based on contemporary human-rights reporting. Current status is unknown.
Wu Changgui was a worker in Xiangtan, Hunan. Human Rights Watch/Asia Watch reported that he was 30 and helped organize the Xiangtan Workers’ Autonomous Federation during the 1989 Democracy Movement, serving as a member of its Standing Committee.
According to Human Rights Watch, Wu organized workers’ demonstrations, sit-ins and strikes on several occasions. He was arrested in June 1989.
HRW reported that in early 1990 the Xiangtan City Public Security Bureau imposed three years of reeducation through labor. This was an administrative detention measure rather than a criminal-court sentence.
Current status
No reliable release or post-detention history has been established in the sources reviewed. The nominal term must not be converted into a release fact. Current status: unknown.
Sources
Human Rights Watch/Asia Watch, Anthems of Defeat: Crackdown in Hunan Province, 1989–92 (May 1992), Appendix I-D.