Historical recovery status: Verified External Record / Original FCM page still sought.
Human Rights Watch’s 1999 China human-rights chronology records that on January 11, 1999 the U.S.-based Free China Movement reported Zhou Yongjun missing and likely in Chinese custody. HRW stated that Zhou had last been heard from on December 21, 1998 in Hong Kong after an earlier unsuccessful attempt to enter mainland China.
This entry preserves the independently documented existence of the Free China Movement report. The exact FreeChina.net page or release corresponding to the January 11 report has not yet been located, so this page does not claim to reproduce the original wording.
Provenance
- Original event/report date: January 11, 1999
- Independent record: Human Rights Watch 1999 China chronology
- Recovery classification: Verified External Record; original FCM page pending
Related record: the June 20, 1999 Free China Movement release concerning Zhou Yongjun’s reported three-year sentence is preserved separately in the historical press-release archive.