Historical recovery status: Verbatim Archive Recovery source located.
A surviving FreeChina.net file titled NED Proposal Budget is dated July 22, 1998 and identifies Shengde Lian, Wang Xizhe, Xu Shuiliang and Wang Peijian as preparers. The document presents a proposed budget totaling US$49,000 for legal defense, family assistance and communications support connected with China Democracy Party activists.
The document is preserved here as a historical primary source. Budget assumptions, legal circumstances and factual assertions in the proposal are statements made by the document’s authors in 1998 and should be evaluated against independent records where possible.
Document structure
- Legal-defense costs
- Financial assistance for families of detained activists
- Telephone, fax, Internet and related communications costs
Provenance
- Document date: July 22, 1998
- Historical file:
/file/budget724.html - Wayback capture used: May 3, 1999
- Recovery classification: Verbatim Archive Recovery source located