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TIANANMEN’S 2004 .2, MOST WANTED—WHERE ARE NO THEY NOW? FORUM RIGHTS

COMPILED BY STACY MOSHER

On June 13, the Public Security Bureau issued a list of 21 leaders of the 1989 protest 49 movement who were being sought for arrest. Following is the list, and what has become of those people since. DEBT THE

ACTIVIST THEN NOW

Wang Dan A history student at , and an On April 18, 1998, was freed on medical organizer of the Beijing Students Autonomous parole and sent into exile to the . He is HONORING

Federation,Wang was arrested on July 2, 1989 and now completing his Ph.D. studies in history at Y: on January 26, 1991 was sentenced to 4 years in Harvard University. He is an honorary member of prison on charges of counterrevolutionary propa- HRIC’s board of directors

ganda and incitement. Released on parole on MEMOR February 17, 1993,Wang was detained again on May 21, 1995 after participating in petitions calling for release of all prisoners arrested in connection with June 4th. On October 30, 1996 he was sentenced to 11 years in prison for subversion. Wuer Kaixi A Uighur student leader from Beijing Normal Univer- Wuer Kaixi studied at Harvard, then at Dominican sity,Wuer Kaixi evaded arrest and escaped to the West College in San Rafael, California, before moving to by way of . , where he is now the host of a radio talk show. A graduate in physics at Peking University, Liu worked Following his release in 1995, Liu fled China via at The Beijing Social and Economic Sciences Research Hong Kong in May 1996, saying that he and his fam- Institute in late 1988, and was a close associate of ily had been subjected to official harrassment.After . He was arrested in Baoding, Hebei completing his studies at New York's Columbia Uni- Province on June 19, 1989 while trying to buy a versity, Liu went to work in the computer industry. railway ticket, and was sentenced to six years in prison for counterrevolutionary crimes. He was incarcerated at Liaoning Province’s notorious Lingyuan Prison, where he suffered horrific phycial abuse. . A graduate student in child psychology at Beijing After receiving an honorary Masters degree from Normal University, Chai Ling was commander-in- Princeton University, and completing an M.B.A. at chief of the protesters at . She Harvard University, Chai Ling launched an Internet- escaped to the West through Hong Kong in April 1990. related company with her American husband. Zhou Fengsuo A physics student at , Zhou was a Zhou was one of 97 political prisoners released on member of the Standing Committee of the Beijing June 6, 1990 as a result of international pressure. He Students Autonomous Federation. He was arrested in left China for the U.S. and is now a financial analyst Xi'an on June 13, 1989 through information supplied in San Francisco, but continues to participate in by his elder sister and brother-in-law, and was im- activities relating to China’s human rights. prisoned for one year.

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Zhai Weimin A student at the Beijing Institute of Economics, Zhai Following his release on September 13, 1993, Zhai managed to evade arrest for nearly a year, but was de- was detained again in March 1994. On May 26, tained in May 1990 after preparing to mark the first 1994 Zhai joined , Li Hai and others in anniversary of June 4th. In February 1992 he was sen- petitioning the National People's Congress for a tenced to four years in prison for counterrevolutionary reassessment of June 4th. On May 25, 1995 police incitement. detained Zhai again, but later released him into the custody of family members. On October 24, 1998 Zhai was listed as a member of the Henan branch of the China Democracy Party when that organization applied for legal registration. In December 1998 Zhai was detained briefly as one of 19 dissidents who launched a hunger strike to demand the release of detained CDP members Xu Wenli, and Qin Yongmin. Liang Qingtun A student at Beijing Normal University. Liang escaped to the West and now lives in San Francisco. Wang Zhengyun A student of the Central University for Nationalities, Following his release in June 1990,Wang was forced Wang was at that time the only member of his to give up his studies and was sent back to his home Kucong ethnic minority group to study at a university. village in the Yunnan countryside, where he lived in Wang was detained in Yunnan in July 1989. considerable hardship. In December 1998 Wang was one of 19 dissidents, including Zhai Weimin, who staged a hunger strike to protest the oppression of CDP members and other dissidents. Zheng Xuguang A student at the , Zheng was tried Zheng was released in July 1991 and went into busi- with Ming in November 1990, and in ness in Beijing. He was arrested again on November 27, January 1991 was sentenced to two years in prison. 1993 after forming a Peace Charter with Ma Shaohua, Qin Yongmin,Yang Zhou and Zhou Guoqiang. He was released on February 2, 1994 after three months in detention without charge. On May 26, 1994 Zheng accompanied Wang Dan, Ma Shaofang, Zhai Weimin, Shao Jiang and Li Hai in petitioning the National People’s Congress for a reassessment of June 4th. Zheng and his wife, Gao Min, have been detained and harrassed a number of times since then. Ma Shaofang A student at the Beijing Film Academy, Ma was arrested Following his release in June 1992, friends helped in Guangzhou on June 13, 1989, and in October 1990 Ma find employment in Beijing, but in April 1993 he was sentenced to three years in prison on charges of was harrassed by Public Security police and forced counterrevolutionary incitement. to return to his home in Jiangsu. In May 1994 he participated with Wang Dan and other dissidents in a petition to the National People’s Congress calling for a reassessment of June 4th. Sporadically employed since then, Ma is currently living in Shenzhen. Yang Tao A student of history at Peking University and head of Following his release in September 1990,Yang was the university’s Autonomous Student Union,Yang was banished to his hometown of Fuzhou and barred arrested in Lanzhou, Gansu Province on June 16, 1989 from future study. He went to work at a private and was imprisoned for one year on charges of incit- company in Guangzhou and began trading in second- ing counterrevolutionary rebellion. hand computers. He was detained on May 5, 1999 and formally arrested on May 19 on charges of sub version in relation to his participation in Wang Dan’s petition commemorating the tenth anniversary of June 4th. However, due to lack of evidence he was indicted on amended charges of tax evasion on December 23, and on January 5, 2003 was sentenced to four years in prison. He was released in May 2003. 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