Current status: Unknown.
Classification: Hunan 1989 civic participant; administrative re-education-through-labor detainee.
Documented identity
Asia Watch reported Xia Kuanqun as a 34-year-old cadre employed in a government organ in Changde City, Hunan.
1989 activity
During the 1989 Democracy Movement, Xia reportedly encouraged cadres in his work unit to go into the streets in support of the students and donated several hundred yuan to the student movement. Asia Watch’s account states that he was later identified during official investigations.
Administrative detention
According to Asia Watch, in November 1989 the Changde City Public Security Bureau imposed three years of re-education through labor on Xia. RTL was an administrative detention measure, not a criminal conviction by a court.
Evidence limits
No RTL decision document, detention-facility record, release confirmation, later biography, or current-status record is presently included in this evidence packet. A nominal three-year term must not be converted into an inferred release date.
Source
Asia Watch / Human Rights Watch, Anthems of Defeat: Crackdown in Hunan Province, 1989–92 (May 1992), Appendix I-D, “Re-education through Labor.”