Canonical profile: Liu Qing (刘青)
This media and source archive accompanies the canonical profile of Liu Qing, a Democracy Wall-era activist, independent-press editor, former political prisoner, and later human-rights advocate.
Source baseline
The controlled research baseline currently includes contemporaneous and retrospective material from TIME, Amnesty International, The Washington Post, Index on Censorship, Human Rights Watch, China Spring/Beijing Spring, C-SPAN, the University of Vienna oral-history project, and Dui Hua. These sources support his Democracy Wall and April Fifth Forum activity, independent-publication work, imprisonment, later U.S. residence, and human-rights advocacy.
Evidence controls
Original public-security reeducation-through-labor decisions, the later judgment, transfer/camp/release records, original April Fifth Forum and Joint Conference records, the original China Spring issue-one honorary-editor material, and Human Rights in China governance records remain research targets. Source differences over the length and timing of Liu Qing’s custodial sentences are preserved rather than silently normalized.
Archive scope
This page will continue to collect verified press coverage, primary documents, interviews, photographs, audio/video, organizational records, and archival publications relating to Liu Qing. Claims from official, participant, NGO, and media sources remain attributed to their respective evidence layers.
Last archive synchronization: September 20, 2026.