Tang Ao (唐敖), born in 1962, was a worker from Shaoyang, Hunan. Human-rights documentation records a seven-year prison sentence for “disturbing public order” in connection with the post-1989 crackdown.
Documented record
The HRIC/HRW-Asia Hunan prisoner-documentation lineage, later reproduced by Chinese Human Rights Defenders, identifies Tang Ao as a Shaoyang worker born in 1962 and records a seven-year sentence for disturbing public order. The same documentation places him in Yongzhou Prison, then known as Hunan No. 3 Prison.
A later 2013 compilation reports that he was released in 1993. Because that release year is currently supported only by that later compilation and would imply an early release from the nominal seven-year term, Free China records it only as a sourced report, not a verified release fact.
Evidence status
The available record does not yet establish Tang Ao’s specific 1989 activity, arrest date, sentencing court, mechanism of any early release, or post-release life. Current status: unknown.
Identity note
This modern Hunan political-prisoner record must not be confused with Tang Ao, the fictional protagonist of the classical novel Flowers in the Mirror (鏡花緣).
Sources
Chinese Human Rights Defenders, The Legacy of Tiananmen (2009), Hunan/Yongzhou Prison documentation; HRIC/HRW-Asia May 19, 1994 Hunan roster as preserved in later compilations; 2013 Hunan prisoner compilation for the reported 1993 release.