This archive collects media and organizational reporting on the case of Lü Xinhua (吕新华), a Hubei China Democracy Party organizer whose 1998 registration effort and later four-year imprisonment are documented in independent sources.
Person profile: Lü Xinhua / 吕新华
Case timeline
- September 1998 — Human Rights Watch reports that Chen Zhonghe, Lü Xinhua, and Ren Qiuguang, representing the seven-member Hubei CDP preparatory committee, met Hubei Provincial Civil Affairs Bureau officials about registration.
- Early 1999 — Human Rights Watch reports that Lü was briefly detained with other CDP figures ahead of a planned national congress in Wuhan and told to cease party activities.
- 2001 — Earlier source reporting records monitoring from March 12, detention on March 18, formal arrest on April 20, and a four-year prison sentence. Reports differ on the exact judgment date, so no specific judgment date is stated here.
- 2005 — Release is reported in the research record; no post-2005 status is inferred.
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Evidentiary limitations
The 1998–1999 events are directly anchored in the Human Rights Watch report. The 2001 chronology and 2005 reported release derive from earlier multi-source reporting in the research record; individual underlying URLs were not re-presented as live citations here. No authenticated indictment, judgment, or release record is claimed.
Person profile: Lü Xinhua / 吕新华