Chen, a farmer of Lin'an city, Hangzhou municipality in Zhejiang province, he was sentenced to 10 months’ imprisonment for "disrupting production and business operations," in an apparent connection to his environmental complaints against a paper factory ran by the village head. The factory caused serious pollution and the court claimed Chen undertook actions that resulted in damage to three factory machines in the paper company on March 20, 2009. Chen's lawyer argued there was insufficient evidence to link Chen's actions to the damaged machines. Chen's lawyer pointed out that public security authorities did not gather evidence at the scene until 11 days had passed and did not detain Chen until June 12, 2010, over a year later. Authorities formally arrested Chen on June 25. In October, the judge did not allow Li Jincheng, a friend of Chen's relative and an acquaintance, to represent Chen, although Article 32 of the Criminal Procedure Law stipulates that friends of a defendant may act as a defender. Chen is presumed to be in a prison in Lin'an city.

'According to Radio Free Asia, officials in Xishui county, Huanggang municipality, Hubei province, detained Hubei rights defender and former volunteer soldier Feng Xinchun in late June 2009. More than 40 former volunteer soldiers, reportedly under Feng’s leadership, had gone to Beijing to petition regarding problems with their wages and endowment insurance. Xishui officials detained Feng upon the group’s return. According to Civil Rights & Livelihood Watch, authorities announced that Feng would serve 10 days’ administrative detention for “assembling and creating a disturbance at the entrance to a government building.” However, His release has not been confirmed.

According to a May 2010 RFA report, on May 15, 200-300 Tibetans gathered at the Xiahe Amdo Cement Factory entrance to protest against conditions and losses they blamed on the factory: environmental damage, pollution, blocked or damaged roads, damage to a Tibetan Buddhist pagoda, and appropriated village property. The factory is in Madang township, Xiahe (Sangchu) county, Gannan (Kanlho) TAP, Gansu province. When the group of protesters attempted to repair a road that the factory had “taken over” and damaged, company officials, government staff, and an estimated 300 “police and thugs” arrived and ordered the villagers to leave within 15 minutes or face possible violence, witnesses told RFA. Police allegedly opened fire before the protesters could leave, injuring 15 people. Police detained five Tibetans, one of whom escaped: Jalo, Gonpo Lhundrub, Gonpo Thar, Tselo, and Sokho (escaped). Villagers had petitioned authorities for years about grievances against the factory, RFA sources said.

According to a May 2010 RFA report, on May 15, 200-300 Tibetans gathered at the Xiahe Amdo Cement Factory entrance to protest against conditions and losses they blamed on the factory: environmental damage, pollution, blocked or damaged roads, damage to a Tibetan Buddhist pagoda, and appropriated village property. The factory is in Madang township, Xiahe (Sangchu) county, Gannan (Kanlho) TAP, Gansu province. When the group of protesters attempted to repair a road that the factory had “taken over” and damaged, company officials, government staff, and an estimated 300 “police and thugs” arrived and ordered the villagers to leave within 15 minutes or face possible violence, witnesses told RFA. Police allegedly opened fire before the protesters could leave, injuring 15 persons. Police detained five Tibetans, one of whom escaped: Jalo, Gonpo Lhundrub, Gonpo Thar, Tselo, and Sokho (escaped). Villagers had petitioned authorities for years about grievances against the factory, RFA sources said.

According to a May 2010 RFA report, on May 15, 200-300 Tibetans gathered at the Xiahe Amdo Cement Factory entrance to protest against conditions and losses they blamed on the factory: environmental damage, pollution, blocked or damaged roads, damage to a Tibetan Buddhist pagoda, and appropriated village property. The factory is in Madang township, Xiahe (Sangchu) county, Gannan (Kanlho) TAP, Gansu province. When the group of protesters attempted to repair a road that the factory had “taken over” and damaged, company officials, government staff, and an estimated 300 “police and thugs” arrived and ordered the villagers to leave within 15 minutes or face possible violence, witnesses told RFA. Police allegedly opened fire before the protesters could leave, injuring 15 persons. Police detained five Tibetans, one of whom escaped: Jalo, Gonpo Lhundrub, Gonpo Thar, Tselo, and Sokho (escaped). Villagers had petitioned authorities for years about grievances against the factory, RFA sources said.

Hu Mingjun and Wang Sen 王森, both leaders of the Sichuan provincial branch of the banned China Democratic Party (CDP), were detained by police in 2001 after they communicated with striking workers at the Dazhou Steel Mill. On 18 December 2000, about 1000 workers at the factory had organised a public demonstration demanding payment of overdue wages, and Hu and Wang subsequently made contact with the demonstrating workers. Wang, a resident of Dazhou, was arrested on 30 April 2001 and Hu, a resident of Chengdu, was arrested on 30 May. The two men were initially charged with “incitement to subvert state power” but the charges were subsequently increased to actual “subversion”. On May 2002, at the Dazhou Intermediate People’s Court, Hu was sentenced to 11 years’ imprisonment and Wang received a 10-year sentence.  Hu Mingjun is due for release in or around May 2012 and Wang due for release on or around April 2011. An article appeared in the Epoch times in 2006 under the pen name of Hu Mingjun but it is not clear if this is the same person. There has been no evidence of Hu’s release and according to the family of Wang Sen Hu is still detained in Chuanzhong Prison.On June 24, 2010, Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CRD) reported that, since 2006, Hu has entered the prison’s hospital four times seeking medical help. CRD reported that Hu is suffering from high blood pressure and heart disease. Hu also reportedly told a close associate that he is not optimistic about his own future, and that he may not leave the prison alive, according to the same CRD report. 

Huang had served as a judge within the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, and had earlier been in the army in Qinghai province. While in the army, Huang had been involved in nuclear testing. A 2007 government notice mandated that dismissed soldiers who were involved in such activity be given medical tests and benefits for resulting damage to their health. In 2008, Huang led 17 army veterans to the Bureau of Civil Affairs and complained that this notice had not been implemented locally. The bureau recognized that the notice was applicable to Huang’s group, but they have so far received no testing or benefits. According to a human rights group,  police in Kashgar, XInjiang Uighur Autuomous Regionc (XUAR) detaiend retired judge Huang Yunmin in February 2009 after he advocated on behalf of health benefits for army veterans. Huang was later charged udner the criminal klaw but the exact charges remain unknown. Huang is currently being held at Tumuxiuke Detention Center in Kashgar.

Huang Zhuyu, a worker at a guesthouse in Sichuan was detained along with two other workers on 20 September 2006. Public security officials detained Huang Zhuyu, Wang Jun (f) and Xu Haiyan on September 20, 2006, after they joined 40 laid-off workers attempting to petition the Suining Municipal Party committee about unemployment benefits. The manager of their workplace, a guesthouse, sold the facility at a low price to a single bidder. The former manager then became deputy secretary general of the Suining municipal government. Public security officials beat two other female petitioners, Zhang Xiaohua and Liu Xiaohong, who were hospitalized. No other information about their place of detention or any charges against them is available. See also Wang Jun and Xu Haiyan below.

Jiang Cunde, was a worker at the Dong Xin Tool Repair Works in Shanghai when, in 1985 and 1986, according to the authorities. He began to advocate "imitating the model of Poland's Solidarity Trade Union to overthrow the present political powers." He reportedly also planned to establish a "China Human Rights Committee." In May 1987, Jiang and two others were convicted on charges of planning to hijack an airplane, and he was sentenced to life in prison for counterrevolution. In January 1993, Jiang was released from Tilanqiao Prison in Shanghai on medical parole. In 1999 he was rearrested for having allegedly "joined a reactionary organization, written reactionary articles and sent them to news agencies, and used the occasion of the US bombing of China's embassy in Belgrade in 1999 to stir up trouble." Jiang was returned to Tilanqiao Prison in June 1999 to continue serving his life sentence. In August 2004, his sentence was commuted to 20 years' imprisonment, and he is currently due for release in August 2024. [NB: Although Jiang was originally convicted of an internationally recognized criminal offence (hijacking an airplane), he has been included on lists of non-violent detained worker activists because the grounds officially given for his re-imprisonment in 1999 related solely to his exercise of the right to freedom of association and expression, and because of his earlier espousal of independent trade unionism in China.

According to CHRD (22 March 2010), public security officers from Yulin city, Shaanxi province retrieved petitioners Zhang Chengxiang, Niu Enkuan, Jiang Shiye, and Li Xiulian from the State Bureau of Letters and Visits in Beijing on 3/13/10 after Beijing authorities detained them for petitioning in front of Zhongnanhai, the Chinese leadership compound, during the annual meetings of the NPC and CPPCC. The Yulin authorities transported them back to Yulin city and detained them at the Yulin PSB Detention Center. The 4 petitioners are workers at the Yulin Automotive Transportation Company, who led a group of workers to Beijing to voice their complaints over their company's "illegal restructuring, buyouts, and retaliatory actions against workers." A total of 18 workers "shouted their complaints" in front of Zhongnanhai. Upon their return to Yulin city, local authorities issued "administrative sanctions" to 5 petitioners and warnings to 9 others before releasing them. Authorities released Zhang, Niu, Jiang, and Li on 3/20/10, after 7 days of administrative detention at the Yulin PSB Detention Center. Further details about this case, including the actual release date is not known.

According to CHRD (22 March 2010), public security officers from Yulin city, Shaanxi province retrieved petitioners Zhang Chengxiang, Niu Enkuan, Jiang Shiye, and Li Xiulian from the State Bureau of Letters and Visits in Beijing on 3/13/10 after Beijing authorities detained them for petitioning in front of Zhongnanhai, the Chinese leadership compound, during the annual meetings of the NPC and CPPCC. The Yulin authorities transported them back to Yulin city and detained them at the Yulin PSB Detention Center. The 4 petitioners are workers at the Yulin Automotive Transportation Company, who led a group of workers to Beijing to voice their complaints over their company's "illegal restructuring, buyouts, and retaliatory actions against workers." A total of 18 workers "shouted their complaints" in front of Zhongnanhai. Upon their return to Yulin city, local authorities issued "administrative sanctions" to 5 petitioners and warnings to 9 others before releasing them. Authorities released Zhang, Niu, Jiang, and Li on 3/20/10, after 7 days of administrative detention at the Yulin PSB Detention Center. Further details about this case, including the actual release date is not known.

A former official trade union official in Liaoning Province, Kong Youping was sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment on 16 September 2004 by the Shenyang Intermediate People's Court. Kong's colleague and co-defendant at the September 2004 trial, Ning Xianhua 宁先华, was sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment. Kong, 54 years old, originally worked as the union chairman at a state-owned enterprise in Liaoning, but his support for protests by laid-off workers and his sharp criticism of government corruption and suppression led to his dismissal from both the factory and the union. In the late 1990s, a group of dissidents, including Kong Youping, were working to establish a branch of the China Democracy Party (CDP) in Liaoning Province, and in 1999 Kong was detained and imprisoned for a year on charges of “incitement to subvert state power”. Prior to his recent arrest and trial, Kong was reportedly involved in planning the establishment of an independent union and had posted articles on the Internet criticizing official corruption and calling for a reassessment of the violent suppression of the 1989 Democracy Movement by the army. The specific charges laid against Kong Youping and Ning Xianhua at their trial are currently unknown. Kong is due for release in 2018. 

Li was a judge from Fujian  Ningde Municipal Intermediate People's Court, Fujian Province and former member of the Ningde city intermediate people's court. Detained on 3 April 2002. On 30 October 2003 he was sentenced to 16 years in prison by the Sanming Municipal Intermediate People's Court. Also sentenced in that case were Lin Shunan, Huang Xiangwei, Lin Shunhan, Zhan Gongzhen, Zheng Xiaohua, Lin Chan, and Lin Shuncheng. Authorities accused these eight defendents, including Li Jianfeng, of planning to set up an illegal organization in late 2000 attempting to register the organisation under the name "Labour and Employment Research Association". The registeration was turned down. In 2001, they allegedly edited a book, "Labour Alliance/Labour Union" and established an organization under the same name. The indictment of Li Jianfeng also accused him of privately concealing an air pistol and a rifle, buying air pistol pellets in Jiangxi, buying raw materials for explosives in Fujian, and testing out the bullets and explosives. Li’s family denied that he kept or used any weapons. 

The human rights group Dui Hua was told in June 2008 that Li Jianfeng had been granted a 17-month sentence reduction in December 2007 (making his expected release date 2 November 2016)Although Li Jianfeng was a judge, for a long time he had provided legal assistance to disadvantaged members of society whose civil rights were violated and had also directed people to use administrative review and litigation against the Ningde Public Security Bureau to revoke mistaken administrative decisions. One example was Li Jiangfeng's defence for Lin Shunan, an internet café owner who was believed to have been forced to close down the cafe after refusing to give police protection money. (The fact according to Lin and Li was that the police came to Lin’s café and  downloaded pornography with Lin’s computers and used it as an accuse to take away Lin’s computers and make the accusation). The defence of Li for Lin could be one reason causing the retaliation of the police. Li Jianfeng was arrested on March 31, 2004. Reports have emerged of the torture and ill-treatment of Li while in detention. Besies, Li was forced to do heavy labour more intensive than other prisoners while serving his sentence in jail. Li was reporeted to have collapsed under serious illness. The family also found that the prison Hospital had been giving expired drugs to Li and rejected passing the medicines and supplies sent by the families for Li. 

All the eight defendents involved in the case had attempted a mass suicide by hanging themselves or going on hunger strike at the detention center after receiving poor treatment from the authority. See also cases of Huang Xiangwei and Lin Shunan. 

Lin Shunan was a local internet café owner who sought legal advice from Li Jianfeng over the (believed) closing of his café by police after he (and his colleague Lin Sunhan) refused to pay them protection money (or let police take away their computers). He was charged in April 2003 with “subverting state power” for establishing a labour research organization.  The organization was believed to be called the “Labour and employment research association”. Members included Lin Shun'an, Huang Xiangwei, Li Jianfeng, Lin Shuncheng, Lin Shunhan, Zhan Gongzhen, Zheng Xiaohua, and Lin Chan. They applied for a registration in 2000, but it was denied. In January 2001, they were accused of forming an illegal trade union and of downloading materials from the Internet and compiling them into a book entitled “Labour Association/Labour Union.” Some of the defendants were also accused of stockpiling firearms and training members to shoot out the windows of the office of the court's chief judge. But no evidence to substantiate the latter charges was made public. They were tried on 30 October 2003 by the Sanming Intermediate People’s Court. Lin Shun’an was sentenced to eight years in prison. He is due for release in March 2010 but there is no confirmation about his release. See also Li Jianfeng and Huang Xiangwei.

According to CHRD, On 19-25 October 2010, Beijing public security officers detained Li Shanwen, a petitioner from Jiujiang city, Jiangxi province,  Li has been petitioning since 2007, when, according to CHRD, " Li was attacked and beaten following a labor dispute with his employer." On October 17, 2010 as he petitioned over a labour dispute near Tiananmen, the Jiangxi provincial liaison office in Beijing was notified of his activities. On 20 October 2010 Boxun report stated that the Jiangxi liaison officials in Beijing, after receiving the notification, hired "criminals" to "abduct" Li and then held him in a Beijing hotel room for 3 days, where they reportedly abused him physically. When the Jiangxi authorities arrived in Beijing, they reportedly told Li that they had spent 8000 RMB to detain him and the other petitioners in the hotel. It was not clear if Li was released after he was sent back to Jiangxi as there has been no confirmation.

Liu Jian, now in his early forties, and Liu Zhihua 刘智华, age unknown, were both workers at the Xiangtan Electrical Machinery Plant, Hunan Province, prior to June 1989 and participated in a demonstration by over 1,000 workers from the factory just after June 4 that year to protest the government’s violent suppression of the pro-democracy movement. After one of their fellow workers had his arm broken by the factory’s security guards, the demonstrators then allegedly ransacked the home of the security section chief. Arrested shortly afterwards, the two workers were tried and sentenced to life imprisonment in either August or October 1989 on charges of “hooliganism” and “intentional injury.” The government has not publicly produced any evidence linking either Liu Jian or Liu Zhihua to specific acts of violence or other genuine crime. Two other workers from the same factory, (Chen Gang 陈刚 and Peng Shi 彭实, also received life sentences for their involvement in the same protest action, but the sentences were later reduced and both men were reportedly released in 2004.) Liu Jian is apparently the only one of the four detained Xiangtan Electrical Machinery Plant workers who has still not had his life prison term reduced to a fixed-term sentence. In May 2009, Dui Hua noted that Liu was believed to be incarcerated but that he was no longer "imprisoned in Hunan Province." On June 1, 2009, Human Rights in China reported that Liu Jian is still in prison, but that his current detention location is unknown.

On 28 June 2008 Beijing public security officers detained Liu Jianjun, a railroad worker and labour rights petitioner from Datong, Shanxi province. On 4 July Liu was returned to Datong and transferred to local police custody and then formally arrested Liu for “inciting subversion of state power,” a crime under Article 105 of the Criminal Law. Liu is currently detained at the Datong No. 1 Detention Centre. His sentence is unknown.

Luo Xi, a resident of Shaoyang city, Hunan province, in Beijing on January 8, 2010. Luo was reportedly held in criminal detention upon his return to Shaoyang for taking part in a December 2008 teachers’ strike in Hunan to demand wages and benefits comparable to those given to civil servants. In late January 2010, Hunan authorities sentenced him to 2 years’ reeducation through labor (RTL) for “disrupting social order.” While in detention, authorities reportedly forced Luo to work 16 hours per day and only allowed him to sleep 4 hours per night, according to a Boxun article. Tang Jingling, a rights lawyer who had spoken to Luo’s wife, told NTDTV that the RTL sentence was also related to his involvement with the case of Yang Kuansheng, the former deputy mayor of Wugang city in Hunan province. Before Luo’s arrest, he was assisting Yang’s family to seek justice in Beijing; Yang’s family had rejected the local authorities’ conclusion that he committed suicide by jumping out of a building in November 2009. Boxun reported that authorities transferred Luo to the Shaoyang city RTL detention center on March 6.

According to a public security official cited by Radio Free Asia, Memet Turghun Abdulla, a Uyghur man from Yengisar county, Kashgar district, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, disappeared from his home sometime around May 2010 and is believed to be in detention. Yengisar county state security officials had originally detained Memet Turghun Abdulla  in August 2009 for writing an online article about Han Chinese in Guangdong province killing Uyghur factory workers in June 2009, an event which prompted demonstrations in Urumqi on July 5, 2009.  He was subsequently confined to his house by authorities. The RFA source said it is unknown who detained him in May, and local police denied knowledge about his disappearance. However, a recent internal Party bulletin said he had been detained for distributing "separatist ideas." Further details about his case, including his current location, are not known.

Wang Jun, a worker at a guesthouse in Sichuan was detained along with two other workers on 20 September 2006. Public security officials detained Huang Zhuyu (f), Wang Jun   and Xu Haiyan on September 20, 2006, after they joined 40 laid-off workers attempting to petition the Suining Municipal Party committee about unemployment benefits.  The manager of their workplace, a guesthouse, sold the facility at a low price to a single bidder. The former manager then became deputy secretary general of the Suining municipal government. Public security officials beat two other female petitioners, Zhang Xiaohua and Liu Xiaohong, who were hospitalized. No other information about their place of detention or any charges against them is available. See also Xu Haiyan and Huang Zhuyu.

Wang, a manual worker in Shanghai at the time of the May 1989 pro-democracy movement, was a leading member of the Shanghai Workers Autonomous Federation which was formed that month. Detained shortly after the June 4, 1989 government crackdown, Wang then spent two and a half years in police detention undergoing “re-education through labour” on account of his involvement in the banned workers’ group. In April 1993, after he committed an act of self-mutilation in front of a Shanghai police station in public protest against having recently been severely beaten up by the police, he was subsequently detained and then forcibly committed to the Shanghai Ankang Mental Hospital, a facility run by the Public Security Bureau to detain and treat mentally ill people. Wang has been held incommunicado at the Shanghai Ankang now for more than 12 years and in custody for more than 16 years and unlike the other individuals listed here, Wang has no fixed release date.

On September 20 2006, more than 40 laid-off workers, including Xu, from Suining’s Suizhou Guesthouse went to the office of the Suining Municipal Party committee after their Guesthouse went bankrupt and its assets were sold undervalued to the benefit of a single bidder. Several audits had reportedly found evidence of corruption by the general manager of the guesthouse, Xie Zhicheng, who had gone on to become the deputy secretary general of the Suining Municipal Government.  Despite the peaceful nature of the protest,   several dozen uniformed and plain-clothes police officers attempted to forcibly remove the petitioning workers. Police officers reportedly pushed two female workers, Zhang Xiaohua and Liu Xiaohong, to the ground, and Zhang was badly beaten. Sources say both women were subsequently taken to the local hospital, where Zhang was diagnosed with a cerebral concussion. The Party Committee head reportedly instructed the hospital not to treat the women, but they were admitted nevertheless. Police reportedly detained two other female petitioners, Wang Jun and Xu Haiyan, as they were returning home as well as a male worker, Huang Zhuyu, who was detained after he returned home that evening. No further information about their place of detention or any charges against them is available.

Xue Mingkai, a 20-year old Factory security guard. On 8 February 2010, the Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court sentenced Xue Mingkai to 18 months in prison on charges of "subversion of state power." Public security bureau personnel in Bao'an district, Shenzhen municipality, Guangdong province, detained Xue on May 9, 2009 and the procuratorate issued an arrest warrant on June 15. Authorities claimed Xue had joined the overseas China Democracy Party (CDP) in 2009 and had recruited other individuals to become members. In addition, authorities alleged that in the summer of 2006, Xue had planned to organize a "China Democratic Workers' Party" online. Xue reportedly did not carry out plans to organize the party. The first session of Xue's trial opened on September 10, 2009 and a second session took place on December 14. According to his mother, court authorities did not acknowledge medical records from 2006 showing that Xue had a mental illness. However, the court accepted two court-ordered psychological evaluations conducted after his detention alleging Xue had no mental illness during the period when the crime was committed. Xue expressed an intention to appeal the judgment, but information on the status of an appeal, if any, is unknown.

Yang is an ex-SOE worker from Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province. Yang was detained on 6 July 2007 and arrested on suspicion of "subversion of state power” in August. Yang’s arrest was apparently ordered by the Ministry of Public Security in Beijing. Yang is believed to have been arrested for collecting signatures to endorse an open letter entitled “We Want Human Rights, not the Olympics” in villages where he had been helping farmers dealing with land disputes in the first half of 2007. The letter had reportedly been signed by more than 10,000 people, mostly Heilongjiang farmers who have lost their land. Many farmers fighting forced eviction in Heilongjiang signed the petition because they sympathized with victims of land loss in cities where corrupt officials used the Olympics as a pretense to grab land/housing while providing inadequate compensation. .. Wang Guilin and Yu Changwu, were also sentenced in the same case. .Yang was sentenced to five years in prison on 24 March 2008. After the close of the Olympics, the Heilongjiang Higher People’s Court reportedly rejected Yang’s appeal. Yang was reportedly beaten with an electric rod on at least two occasions. Yang is due for release on July 6, 2012.

Public security officials in Jixi City, Heilongjiang province, detained Yuan Xianchen on 28 May 2008, and formally charged him in July with “subversion of state power”. It is believed that Yuan’s arrest may be linked to his work with land rights activist Yang Chunlin (see above) , In an article in March 2008, Yuan called for state-owned enterprises to respect labour rights and wrote critically of both the local government and the State Council. Yuan, 44, self-studied law and also worked as a legal advisor to workers at Didao Mine, Jixi City who have been seeking compensation from the local government and the mine management since the former state-owned business was re-structured and became a private enterprise. His wife, Zhang, was arrested at the same time, first on suspicion of “disturbing social order”, then “inciting subversion of state power”. Zhang was later released. Yuan was sentenced to four years in spring 2009 and is due for release on or around mid 2012.

The Xi'an Municipal Xincheng District People's Court in Xi'an city, Shaanxi province, sentenced worker rights defender and lawyer Zhao Dongmin to three years' imprisonment on October 19, 2010, for "mobilizing the masses to disrupt social order," according to an October 27, 2010, statement released by Zhao's lawyer, Li Jinsong. Prior to his sentencing, Zhao had been in detention since August 19, 2009, when authorities in Xi'an detained Zhao from his home and held him at the city's Xincheng district public security bureau (PSB) station for "gathering a crowd to disrupt social order," according to an August 27, 2009, Radio Free Asia article. Zhao reportedly formed a study group in April 2009 consisting of about 20 labor activists to represent the interests of about 300 workers from area enterprises. Zhao then applied to the Shaanxi provincial trade union to have his group officially registered. He also went to Beijing and submitted a letter making the same request to the All-China Federation of Trade Unions. No information is available on where he is currently imprisoned.

Zhu was a 28-year-old worker at the Hengyang City (Hunan Province) Flour Factory and vice-chairman of the Hengyang City Workers Autonomous Federation. He organised demonstrations and took part in sit-in in front of the municipal government offices. After the events of June 4, he allegedly led workers to the municipal Public Security Bureau to demand justice. He was sentenced in December 1989 by the Hengyang City Intermediate People’s Court to life imprisonment on a charge of “hooliganism”. In 1993, ICFTU received a reply from the Chinese government, indicating that Zhu was “released, acquitted of criminal responsibility”. However  many groups continue to believe Zhu remains detained and  is  believed to be still held in Hengyang Prison (Hunan Provincial No.2 Prison). In October 2005, the Chinese government maintained that Zhu "was never punished" for his activities in 1989 and it stated that he is once again working at Hengyang's Xihu Flour Factory. This information does not match, however, with the original reporting of the case in the Hunan Daily.

According to Dui Hua, RFA, and CHRD, Zuo Xiaohuan, a human rights defender, Charter 08 signatory, and former volunteer at 64 Tianwang, from Santai county, Mianyang city, Sichuan province, was detained by Santai PSB on April 26, 2010 on suspicion of “subversion of state power.” The Mianyang PSB formally arrested Zuo on May 28 on charges of “inciting subversion of state power.” According to reports, Zuo may have been arrested because he had helped private-school teachers, who had staged demonstrations, to protect their employment rights, gave interviews to overseas media, and had published articles containing criticism of government policy. Zuo previously served a year in prison for his participation in the June 4, 1989, Tiananmen protests, and was sentenced to two years of RTL in 2006 for “inciting subversion of state power.” In 2006, authorities accused him of being a member of the outlawed Union of Chinese Nationalists (Zhongguo Fanlan Lianmeng). He had nominated himself to run for the local people’s congress and had spread pro-democracy materials on a school campus while he was a teacher. He is currently being held in the Santai county PSB detention center.