Li Wangyang

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Li Wangyang ( Chinese  李旺陽  /  李旺阳 , Pinyin Lǐ Wāngyáng ; * 1950 in Hunan Province, † June 6, 2012 in Shaoyang , Hunan Province) was a Chinese dissident and civil rights activist.

Li Wangyang was seen as an important advocate of workers' rights in China and a workers leader and sympathizer of the 1989 student movement. He was arrested in the 1989 Tiananmen massacre and sentenced to 13 years in prison by a court. In 2001, shortly before the end of his sentence, he was sentenced to another 10 years in prison.

In 2011 he was released from prison after 22 years. He allegedly died of suicide in a Beijing hospital in June 2012; the circumstances of death are unexplained. Mass protests of over 150,000 people in Hong Kong followed after his death.

Individual evidence

  1. Juliana Liu: "Li Wangyang: Hong Kong asks who killed Tiananmen activist" , BBC News, Hong Kong , June 7, 2012
  2. a b c “Death of a dissident: Hong Kong's citizenship radiates” , NZZ , June 7, 2012
  3. ^ A b "Civil rights activist Li Wangyang dies under mysterious circumstances" , Der Spiegel Online , June 6, 2012
  4. ^ "New mass protest in Hong Kong after the death of civil rights activist Li Wangyang" ( Memento of the original from July 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Der Standard , June 10, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / derstandard.at