Death of Li Wangyang

Li Wangyang was a Chinese dissident labor rights activist, member of the Workers Autonomous Federation and chairman of the Shaoyang WAF branch. Following his role in the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, he served twentyone years in prison on charges of counterrevolutionary propaganda, incitement, and subversion. Of all Chinese prodemocracy activists from 1989, Li has spent the longest time in prison. OnJune 2012, one year after his release from prison, and a few days after a television interview in which he continued to call for vindication of the Tiananmen Square protests, Li was found hanged in a hospital room. Shaoyang city authorities initially claimed suicide was the cause of death, but it was revised to accidental death after the autopsy.

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