This index tracks recovered FreeChina.net material from 1999. It is part of the 1998–2001 early FreeChina.net recovery project.
Verified surviving evidence
A direct Internet Archive capture of the FreeChina.net homepage from April 21, 1999 survives. The page identifies the site as the Free China Movement and retains the Declaration of Moral Purpose, Action Goals, press releases, media coverage, Free China Movement Update, discussion forum, archived files, 1998 Unity Meeting, sponsoring organizations, and pro-democracy links.
Recovered and reconstructed 1999 records
- January 4, 1999 — Reuters: investor protest and proposed Chinese Labor Party (Archived Media Coverage)
- January 4, 1999 — AFP: proposed Chinese Labor Party and worker-rights agenda (Archived Media Coverage)
- January 6, 1999 — AFP report on FCM claim about police-fire directive (Archived Media Coverage; underlying claim separately unverified)
- January 11, 1999 — Free China Movement report on Zhou Yongjun’s disappearance (Verified External Record; original FCM page still sought)
- June 20, 1999 — Zhou Yongjun sentenced to three years (Historical FCM release)
- September 27, 1999 — “The Two-China Crisis: One Democracy or Two States?” press advisory (Verbatim Archive Recovery source located)
- 1999 — Free China Resolution submitted to the U.N. Commission on Human Rights (Verbatim Archive Recovery source located)
- Free China Movement Update — Vol. 1 recovery index
- 1999 — Hu Ping: “On the Changing Roles of Dissidents and Political Opposition” (Partial Reconstruction; original FreeChina.net forum URL recovered)
- October 29, 1999 — “Our Sorrowful Confession” — FreeChina.net forum record (Partial Reconstruction; original URL/title/date recovered)
Media index recovery
The archived English-language media index also exposes additional 1998–1999 FreeChina.net-hosted copies of Reuters, AFP, AP and other reports. These are being restored as bibliographic/media-coverage records without republishing third-party articles in full.
Provenance
- Original domain: freechina.net
- Wayback capture: 1999-04-21 15:35:36 UTC
- Archive URL: https://web.archive.org/web/19990421153536/http://www.freechina.net/
- Recovery classification: Verbatim Archive Recovery source located
- Recovery date: 2026-09-20
Further 1999 URL-level recovery remains in progress; incomplete records remain labeled rather than silently reconstructed.