This archive preserves Human Rights Watch/Asia Watch reporting on Lu Gang, a Tianjin worker and standing committee member of the Tianjin Workers Autonomous Federation during the 1989 protests. His Chinese name characters remain unverified.
1989 — arrest and prison sentence
Human Rights Watch reports that Lu worked at the Tianjin No. 2 Woolen Thread Factory, was arrested in June 1989, and received three years in prison on “counterrevolution” charges.
1992–1993 — rearrest and reeducation through labor
After release, Lu reportedly worked at the Tianjin Far Eastern Department Store. Human Rights Watch states that he was re-arrested around September 13, 1992 in connection with Shen Tong’s return to China and, in summer 1993, administratively sentenced to a second three-year reeducation-through-labor term for alleged “counterrevolutionary offenses.”
Human Rights Watch/Asia Watch 1993 report
1994 — no government accounting
Human Rights Watch reported that Beijing provided no identifying information on Lu Gang in response to a February 1994 U.S. State Department political-prisoner inquiry.
Human Rights Watch/Asia Watch 1994 report
Identity and evidence limits
A separate “Lu Gang2” in the 1994 Human Rights Watch report was a Chengdu recruit linked to the Social-Democratic Party of China and is a different person. No Chinese name characters, PRC court record, or reliable post-1994 status update for the Tianjin Lu Gang was located.