Evidence status: Documented profile. The second detention is single-source and must remain qualified. Current status is unknown.
Duan Ping / 段平 was a teacher from the Yongzhou/Qiyang area of Hunan. Human Rights Watch/Asia Watch reported that he was 32 and had taught at Qiyang No. 1 Middle School.
Human Rights Watch reported that during the 1989 Democracy Movement authorities accused Duan of making “secret link-ups” and stirring up disturbances. He was sent to two years of reeducation through labor. The report says he was released by 1992 and then opened an electronic-game parlor; this release report is source-attributed rather than independently verified.
HRW further reported that after the failed August 1991 Soviet coup, Duan was arrested again, apparently over statements welcoming the coup’s failure, and was sent to Xinkaipu Labor Re-education Center for an additional three years of reeducation through labor. Later CHRD and Hunan compilation records generally preserve only the first two-year term, so the second three-year term should be treated as a single-source HRW finding rather than folded into a single five-year sentence.
Both measures were administrative reeducation through labor, not criminal-court sentences.
Current status
No reliable post-second-detention history has been established in the sources reviewed. Current status: unknown.
Sources
Human Rights Watch/Asia Watch, Anthems of Defeat: Crackdown in Hunan Province, 1989–92 (May 1992), Appendix I-D. Chinese Human Rights Defenders, The Legacy of Tiananmen (2009), Hunan appendix. 2013 Hunan prisoner compilation, used as a secondary informant-attributed source.