Yao Fuxin / 姚福信 — Media Profile & Archive
This archive accompanies the canonical Yao Fuxin / 姚福信 profile.
Documented source record
- The Washington Post — reporting relevant to Yao and the Liaoyang worker protests.
- South China Morning Post — reporting used in the documented chronology, including later release reporting.
- Amnesty International — human-rights documentation concerning Yao’s detention and prosecution.
- Congressional-Executive Commission on China — U.S. government documentation concerning the case.
- International Trade Union Confederation — labor-rights documentation concerning Yao and the Liaoyang workers.
- Human Rights Watch-hosted indictment reproduction — documentary source concerning the prosecution allegations.
Chronology
Sources place Yao among the principal figures in the 2002 Liaoyang worker protests. He was detained in March 2002, sentenced on May 9, 2003 to seven years for subversion, and his appeal was reported upheld in June 2003. Independent reporting records his release on March 16, 2009.
Open documentary gaps
Primary acquisition targets remain the original judgment and appeal, prison and release certificates, original labor-union organizing records, and the original 1998–99 hunger-strike roster. Prosecution allegations are not treated as proof of formal organizational membership.
See the canonical Person Profile.