Person profile: Deng Huanwu (邓焕武)
This page collects published reporting on Deng Huanwu (邓焕武), the Sichuan/Chongqing veteran activist detained in the 1995 pre-4 June crackdown and later in the 1998 China Democracy Party organizing wave, with source attributions and limits of the record.
Archived reporting
- Amnesty International, “China: Update on Dissidents Detained Around 4 June 1995” (ASA 17/69/95, 19 September 1995) — reports Deng’s 18 May 1995 detention without a warrant and a reported September trial; the sentence was not announced.
- Human Rights Watch, “China: Keeping the Lid on Demands for Change” (June 1995) — reports that Deng, a Sichuan native who had served a ten-year sentence for dissident political thought, went missing on May 18 or 19 and was reportedly sent back to Sichuan and warned not to leave home. Full report PDF.
- Open letter from dissidents in nineteen provinces on the July 1998 CDP crackdown — reproduced by 在野党 and listing Deng among the Chongqing signatories.
- Human Rights Watch, Human Rights Chronology: China, Hong Kong, Tibet (November–December 1998) — records the brief detention of six dissidents, including Deng, in connection with organizing a China Democracy Party branch in Sichuan.
- Chen Mingxian, “Always Parting: My Life with Liu Xianbin” (China Change, 29 March 2015) — used only as a later-period sighting around 2000–2002.
- Refworld mirror of the 1995 Human Rights Watch report.
Source notes and limitations
The reported “bigamy” trial is attributed to Amnesty International; no court record was located in the publication package. The ten-year prior sentence is reported by Human Rights Watch without dates, offense, or facility. The 2000–2002 sighting is from a first-person memoir and is not used to infer any later status.
Person profile: Deng Huanwu (邓焕武)