Current status: Unknown.
Classification: Hunan 1989 civic participant; administrative re-education-through-labor detainee.
Documented identity and activity
Asia Watch reported Xiao Shenhe as a 32-year-old peasant from Ningxiang County, Hunan. During the 1989 Democracy Movement he took part in demonstrations and meetings on several occasions and reportedly planned to establish an “Anti-Corruption Action Group.”
Detention
Xiao was reported arrested after June 4 and held in the Changsha County Jail. At the end of 1989 he was sent to the Changsha City Xinkaipu Labor Re-education Center for three years of re-education through labor.
This was administrative detention, not a criminal conviction or court sentence.
Evidence limits
No RTL decision document, confirmed release date, post-detention biography, or current-status record is presently available in this packet. Free China does not infer release from the nominal three-year term.
Source
Asia Watch / Human Rights Watch, Anthems of Defeat: Crackdown in Hunan Province, 1989–92 (May 1992), Appendix I-D, “Re-education through Labor.”