Human Rights and Democracy Information Center reported that a worker activist Li WanYang , who was involved in the 1989 democratic movement and had been imprisoned for 22 years, died in a Hunan hoispital this morning. His friends said that Li Wangyang might have been tortured to death, while the authority disguised the case as suicide.
Li Wangyang, 62-year-old, was a worker in a glass factory. After the June 4 incident, he was imprisoned for 13 years on the charges of counter-revolutionary . In 2001, he was released but then quickly jailed again for 10 years for subversion of state power. Last year in May, he was released, when he became blind . His friends pointed out that his blindness was resulted from torture.
If you want to know more anout Li WangYang, please click the link below (about the interview of him form i-Cable):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=204FQYGpWuI
Video of the death of Li (from Apple Daily)
http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/realtime/china/20120606/50090791
Also, Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China will call for a protest to against China’s persecution of worker activist Li WanYang.
Date: 7th June, 2012
Time: 12:00
Place: Western Police Station, Hong Kong Island
Enquiry: 27826111