Lu Gang was a Tianjin worker and a standing committee member of the Tianjin Workers Autonomous Federation during the May 1989 pro-democracy protests, according to Human Rights Watch/Asia Watch. His Chinese name characters were not established in the reviewed sources and are therefore not supplied here.
Human Rights Watch reported that Lu worked at the Tianjin No. 2 Woolen Thread Factory and was arrested in June 1989. He received a three-year prison sentence on “counterrevolution” charges.
After release, Lu reportedly found work in the home-appliance section of the Tianjin Far Eastern Department Store. Human Rights Watch states that he was arrested again around September 13, 1992, less than two months after getting out of prison, in connection with the return to China of activist Shen Tong.
In the summer of 1993, according to Human Rights Watch, Lu was administratively sentenced without trial to a second three-year term of reeducation through labor for alleged “counterrevolutionary offenses.”
A May 1994 Human Rights Watch report states that the Chinese government provided no identifying information about Lu in response to a U.S. State Department inquiry concerning political prisoners.
Status: unknown. The latest located case evidence is historical, from 1993–1994. No reliable source on his later whereabouts, release, or current status was found.
Identity safeguard: Human Rights Watch separately mentions a different person also called “Lu Gang,” associated with the Social-Democratic Party of China in Chengdu. That person is not the Tianjin workers’ federation member documented here.
Sources: Human Rights Watch/Asia Watch, China in 1993; Human Rights Watch/Asia Watch, China: No Progress on Human Rights.