Yan Jiaqi (严家其) is a Chinese political scientist and overseas democracy advocate who left mainland China after the 1989 crackdown.
Media archive: Yan Jiaqi (严家其) — Media Profile & Archive
Public role
Contemporary reporting documents Yan’s role in the formation of the Federation for a Democratic China in Paris in September 1989 and reports that delegates elected him chairman. Later organization-issued records identify him among the organization’s former presidents; exact title translations and tenure dates are kept source-bounded.
1989 and exile
Human Rights Watch and contemporaneous reporting document Yan’s political-science work, public interventions during the 1989 movement, departure from mainland China after the crackdown and subsequent work abroad.
Research status
Media baseline completed. This profile uses source-bounded wording and keeps unresolved organization-role details open for archival enrichment.