Person profile: Mao Guoliang / 毛国良
This companion archive preserves the dated media and documentary record behind the profile of Mao Guoliang (毛国良), a Zhejiang democracy activist and former political prisoner.
1989: arrest and imprisonment
Source reporting records that Mao was arrested on June 18, 1989 in connection with the democracy movement and received a seven-year sentence. Later reporting states the sentence was reduced and that he was released in September 1993. The original judgment, sentence-reduction instrument, and release record have not been recovered; the exact charge and sentencing court are therefore not stated here.
May 1995: anniversary-period detention
Amnesty International’s 19 September 1995 update records that Mao was detained in May in Hangzhou and released several days later. The report lists him among people detained and released during the period surrounding the sixth anniversary of the 1989 crackdown.
1996–1998: petitions, questioning, and CDP activity
Contemporaneous wire reporting tracked Mao’s activity in Zhejiang democracy networks, including police questioning in February 1998 and his participation in a March 1998 joint protest over the reeducation-through-labor sentence imposed on Shanghai activist Yang Qinheng. These episodes are treated separately from the 1989 imprisonment.
Source record
Limitations
The exact 1989 charge, sentencing court, sentence-reduction instrument, and current circumstances are not established in the available record. Wire-reported quotations and protest participation remain attributed to those reports.
Person profile: Mao Guoliang / 毛国良