Li Wenming — Media and Document Archive
Person profile: Li Wenming.
Key records
- Amnesty International, May 8, 1997. Core case file covering Li’s biography, labor organizing, May 1994 detention, indictment, November 1996 trial and health concerns. Source.
- Amnesty International, June 1997. Records the May 30, 1997 sentence of three years and six months plus two years’ deprivation of political rights, along with kidney-health concerns and the projected November 11 release date. Source.
- Human Rights Watch, World Report 1998. Independently corroborates Li’s detention, trial and sentence in the Shenzhen labor-rights case. Source.
- International Labour Organization. Discusses the case in the context of freedom of association and reports Li’s acute kidney damage and denied medical care. Source.
- UN document E/CN.4/Sub.2/1997/NGO/13, July 31, 1997. Cites the case in a written NGO statement to the UN Sub-Commission on Human Rights. Source.
- Amnesty International, February 1998. Records that Li and Guo were released on expiry of their sentences in late 1997. Source.
Evidence notes
No verified Chinese characters were located for Li Wenming’s name. His current life and whereabouts after 1997 are unknown. The roster’s later “current” placement is stale for this case and is not used as a present-custody claim.