Over 40 years old in 1989, Yan Jiazhi (颜家志) was the principal of the school where fellow defendant Lu Jingguo taught — identified, via an August 5, 1989 Hunan Daily report, as the principal (校长) of Xintian County Agricultural Technology School (新田县农业技术学校), seized by Lingling prefecture authorities for printing and distributing anti-communist leaflets and inciting students. He was sentenced to 5 years in prison in the same case as Lu Jingguo. Quoted from CHRD: “Yan Jiazhi (颜家志): over 40 years old in 1989, president in the same school as Lu Jingguo, was sentenced to 5 years in prison in the same case as Lu Jingguo.”
Evidence status
The documentary record presently supports Yan Jiazhi’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
- Hunan Daily, August 5, 1989 (contemporaneous press; cited via Chinese Wikipedia, 六四事件中的湖南省, for the school identification)
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.