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Source archive for Huang Qi, founder and publisher of 64 Tianwang, documenting his internet publishing, detention and prosecution.

Shi Tao (师涛) is a Chinese journalist and poet whose 2004–2005 prosecution became one of the first major cases connecting internet use, corporate data disclosure, and press freedom in mainland China. As an editor at the Changsha newspaper…

Li Wangyang (李旺阳, 1950–2012) was a labor activist from Shaoyang, Hunan, best known for his role in the independent workers’ movement that emerged during the 1989 pro-democracy demonstrations. While employed at a local cement plant, he became chair…

Liu Gang (刘刚) was a student organizer in the 1989 democracy movement in China. Amnesty International identified him as a key 1989 student organizer and prisoner of conscience, reporting his arrest in June 1989 and his six-year sentence…

Tong Yi (童屹) is a Chinese democracy activist known as the aide to dissident Wei Jingsheng until his arrest in April 1994. Contemporaneous reporting variously describes her role as his assistant, secretary, and research assistant. Her detention in…

Ren Wanding (任畹町) is a veteran of China’s Democracy Wall movement and a human-rights and democracy activist. His decades-long record spans the Democracy Wall period beginning in 1979, imprisonment after the 1989 political crackdown, and later organizing work…

Huang Xiang (黄翔) is a Chinese poet and historical dissident of the Democracy Wall generation. The documentary record identifies him as a former political prisoner who endured repeated imprisonment under the mainland Chinese Communist government and later lived…

Yang Yun (杨云) is also identified in historical records as Yang Yuting (杨雨亭). Cross-source evidence — first-person recollections from movement participants, the Chinese Alliance for Democracy’s own ten-year history, a first-person interview with Yang Yuting, and independent historical…

Selected documentary and media sources concerning labor and democracy activist Yao Fuxin, the Liaoyang protests, imprisonment, and reported 2009 release.

Documentary-source archive accompanying the canonical profile of democracy activist and former political prisoner Xu Shuiliang.