Zhong Minghui is documented in Asia Watch reporting as a 30-year-old middle-school teacher in Jinshi City, Changde Prefecture, Hunan, who was detained after the 1989 Democracy Movement.
Canonical profile
See the canonical Person Profile for Zhong Minghui.
Documented record
Asia Watch reported that authorities accused Zhong of writing “reactionary articles” and spreading “rumors” during the 1989 movement. These are attributed official characterizations reproduced by the source, not independently established findings.
The report states that Zhong was detained after June 4, 1989 and that, at the end of 1989, the Jinshi City Public Security Bureau imposed three years of re-education through labor. RTL was administrative detention rather than a criminal court conviction.
Source register
- Asia Watch / Human Rights Watch, Anthems of Defeat: Crackdown in Hunan Province, 1989–92 (May 1992), Appendix I-D, “Re-education through Labor.”
Research limits
The present evidence set does not establish the RTL decision document, detention facility, confirmed release date, later biography, or current status. Release is not inferred from the nominal term.