1989
Yang Hong
Yang, a reporter for China Youth News, was arrested on June 13, 1989 in Kunming. He was charged with circulating "rumor-mongering leaflets" and protesting against corruption.
1989
Yu Zhongmin
Yu, a journalist with Law Monthly in Shanghai, was arrested sometime after June 4, 1989. He was later described in Wenhui Daily as an "agitator" in Shanghai demonstrations.
1987
Liu De
Liu, a member of the editorial board of the Jianna Literature and Arts Journal in Sichuan Province, was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment in February 1987 for "vilifying the socialist system." Liu had also been active during the 1979-81 Democracy Wall period.
1981
Zhu Jianbin
Zhu, a co-founder of Sound of the Bell, met with other activists from the All-China Association of the Democratic Press in August 1980. He was arrested in April 1981. CPJ has been unable to confirm reports that he was released in 1992.
1979
Wei Jingsheng
Wei, editor of Explorations, a mimeographed magazine that first appeared in the winter of 1978, was arrested in March 1979. That November, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison on charges of "counterrevolutionary propaganda and incitement" and passing a "military secret" that he had seen in the Chinese media to a foreign journalist. A Ministry of Justice official recently told human rights activist John Kamm that there was little chance of his early parole. He is now being held in a labor camp near Tangshan. According to Asia Watch, the name of the prison is Nanpu New Life Salt Farm.
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