Media Profile & Archive — Yue Tianxiang (岳天祥)
This archive collects reporting that documents the case of Yue Tianxiang (岳天祥), a Tianshui, Gansu labor-rights activist who co-founded the newsletter China Workers Monitor (《中国工人观察》) and was imprisoned in 1999. See the person profile.
Case timeline
- 1995: Amnesty International reported that Yue and fellow driver Guo Xinmin were laid off by the Tianshui City Transport Company while owed three months’ back pay.
- January 1999: Yue established China Workers Monitor with Guo Xinmin and Wang Fengshan and was arrested shortly afterward.
- July 5, 1999: The Tianshui People’s Intermediate Court sentenced Yue to ten years’ imprisonment for “subverting state power”; Guo and Wang received two-year terms.
- 2002: Amnesty reported Yue was believed held in Tianshui No. 2 Prison and called for his release.
- January 8, 2008: The Committee to Protect Journalists reported that Yue had been freed after a 2005 sentence reduction, citing the Dui Hua Foundation.
Source archive
- Committee to Protect Journalists — “Releases in China cautiously welcomed” (11 February 2008)
- Committee to Protect Journalists — Attacks on the Press 2005
- Committee to Protect Journalists — 2004 prison census
- Committee to Protect Journalists — 2002 prison census
- Amnesty International Report 2002 — China
- Amnesty International — Detained and Imprisoned Labour Rights Activists
Archive notes
- The January 8, 2008 release and 2005 sentence reduction rest on CPJ’s reporting citing the Dui Hua Foundation; no original release or reduction instrument has been recovered.
- Some secondary material compiled in 2008 continued to list Yue as detained; this archive treats that as stale relative to the dated CPJ release report.
- The existing canonical Chinese form is 岳天祥; a variant 岳天翔 appears in another corpus and is not treated as a separate person.
- No post-2008 residence, activity, or current-status claim is inferred.