Over 20 years old in 1989, Xia Yang (夏阳) was the Youth League secretary of the Yueyang Municipal Committee (岳阳市团委书记). He was sentenced to 2 years in prison for “counterrevolutionary propaganda and inflammatory delusion.” Quoted from HRIC: “Aged over 20, the Youth League secretary, Yueyang Municipal Committee… Been sentenced to 2 years imprisonment under the crime of ‘counterrevolutionary propaganda and inflammatory delusion’.”
Evidence status
The documentary record presently supports Xia Yang’s identity, employment and sentence as stated above. The original court judgment (no case number located) and the prison-release record have not yet been found, No release chronology is documented; 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
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.