Born in 1964, Yan Deyun (颜德云) was self-employed in Xiangtan City. He was sentenced to 4 years in prison for “disturbance of public order.” Quoted from HRIC: “Born in 1964, a selfemployed households in Xiangtan City… Been sentenced to 4 years imprisonment under the crime of ‘disturbance of public order’.”
Evidence status
The documentary record presently supports Yan Deyun’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.