Born in 1965, Wang Zhaobo (王昭波) was a worker at the Yueyang Locomotive Terminal (Depot). Human-rights documentation records a 12-year prison sentence in the same post-June 1989 case as Hu Min.
The 1989 case
Wang was among the defendants in the Yueyang case: on the evening of June 7, 1989, thousands of Yueyang residents and students blocked the Beijing–Guangzhou railway with spare rails; crowds then marched and smashed the gates and nameplates of the Yueyang city government, and the Yueyang City Workers and Students Alliance (岳阳市工学联盟会) was founded with Hu Min as president. Song Yongyi’s case guide places the arrests on June 10, 1989, while the 2013 compendium and the Chinese Wikipedia Hunan chronology report June 9. Eight people were arrested in this group — Hu Min, Guo Yunqiao, Mao Yuejun, Fan Lixin, Pan Qiubao, Wan Yuewang, Wang Zhaobo and Fan Fan — and, in the words of the case guide, “severely punished.” The group was convicted of hooliganism (流氓罪), with sentences ranging from three years to life. According to the Chinese Wikipedia Hunan chronology, on June 8 Wang hand-wrote the Alliance’s banner “沉痛悼念民主烈士” (solemnly mourn the democratic martyrs), which the group used to mobilize students that night. Quoted from CHRD: “Wang Zhaobo (王昭波): born in 1965, worker at the Yueyang Locomotive Terminal, was sentenced to 12 years in prison in the same case as Hu Min.”
Evidence status
The documentary record presently supports Wang Zhaobo’s identity, employment and sentence as stated above. The 2013 compendium reports that he received medical parole in 1991 because of diabetes; this is PROBABLE, single-secondary-source reporting rather than an independently verified release record. The original court judgment (no case number located) and an official prison-release record have not yet been found; no release chronology is documented, and anything not documented is marked RESEARCH PENDING.
Current status: unknown (no release record located).
Sources
- Human Rights in China, “An Independent Report on the Situation of the June 4 Massacre Victims”
- Chinese Human Rights Defenders, “The Legacy of Tiananmen: 20 Years of Oppression, Activism and Hope” (June 1, 2009)
- Song Yongyi, “A Guide to the ‘Court Cases of the June 4th Protesters Against Government Violence’” (Laogai Research Foundation)
- Chinese Wikipedia, 六四事件中的湖南省
- 2013 compendium, “六四屠殺24周年祭” (paolongtao, Google Groups), incorporating the 1994 HRIC/HRW-Asia Hunan roster
Source provenance: Where both HRIC and CHRD are cited, they draw on the same Jiang Qisheng / 1994 Hunan prisoner-list evidence lineage rather than two independent investigations.