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Sixty-six members of illegal organizations in Shanghai were reported detained; 26 of them were arrested formally. Two named are: ZHANG Renfu, a worker at the Shanghai aquatic products cold storage plant, and ZHENG Liang. Zhang, together Zheng and eight unemployed workers, had formed the Shanghai Patriotic Workers Support Group. GONG Chencheng, said to be a key member of the organization, was reported to have turned himself in to the authorities. (Beijing Television Service, 16 June, in FBIS, 20 June.) NIU Shengchang, 38, a villager from the Niulin Village in Yunshang Township in Dongping County was arrested on June 16. He is accused of having gone to Beijing on 18 May to join the Peasants Autonomous Union. He returned to his home on June 4, but then reportedly traveled to other localities where he posted "reactionary" posters and distributed "counter-revolutionary leaflets."(Jinan Shandong Provincial Service, 17 June, in FBIS 20 June.)

PENG Jing, member of the Beijing "Dare-to-Die Corps" was arrested in Wuhan on June 16. A Worker at the Wuhan City Pharmaceutical Factory, he was detained and fined by public security organs on several occasions for committing theft. The Beijing television service which reported his arrest on June 18 showed Peng being brought into a room where he was questioned by two uniformed men. (Beijing Television Service, 18 June, in FBIS, 20 June.)

ZHANG Guorong, leader of Anhui's Hefei City Workers Spontaneous Group, reportedly turned himself in to the Public Security Bureau on June 10. Described as a young worker, he had been detained twice before, and had once been sent to the "education through labor center". He has been accused of "taking advantage of the social unrest" to stage demonstrations, shout slogans, incite strikes and vilify party and state leaders. (Beijing Domestic Service, 13 June, in FBIS, 22 June.)

HAO Fuyuan, 37, a peasant from the Haojia village of Tianzhen Town in Gaoqing County, was reportedly detained recently for interrogation by the Public Security Bureau for "spreading reactionary statements and inciting peasants to create disturbances." It is not known whether he remains in detention. (Jinan Shandong Provincial Service, 19 June, in FBIS, 21 June.)

SONG Tianli, unemployed, and JIAO Zhixin, salesman, were accused of being "chieftains of a "counterrevolutionary organization," the China Democratic Political Party. According to Amnesty International, they were arrested in Dalian on 13 June. They allegedly formed the China Democratic Political Party during the student demonstrations and advocated the overthrow of the Chinese Communist Party and the socialist system. (AI Urgent Action 202/89, 22 June 1989.)

XU Bingli, 51, a worker at the Hongkou District Housing Management Company in Shanghai, was arrested in Shanghai on 13 June, according to Amnesty International. He is accused of setting up an illegal organization, the China Civil Rights Autonomous Federation, and of making "counter-revolutionary" speeches. Amnesty International has reported the following arrests:

HE Heng and HU Jiahaq were arrested in Shanghai on June 7-8, allegedly for obstructing vehicles with roadblocks, deflating the tires of five vehicles and beating up the drivers.

HU Kesheng was arrested on June 7-8 in Shanghai allegedly for forcibly stopping a truck, and attempting to use it as a roadblock. DONG Jin was also arrested in Shanghai on June 7-8, allegedly for having deflated the tires of a vehicle in order to block a road.

HU Linyong, KONG Qiming, Xu Guibao, SHEN Minggui, and LIU Ronglin were arrested in Shanghai on June 5-6, allegedly for causing destruction to vehicles.

LU Zhongshu and HUANG Lianxi were arrested in Beijing on June 6. The charges against them are, respectively, burning army trucks and armoured vehicles, and setting fire to the seats of a trolley bus.

GAN Huijie was arrested in Beijing on June 3, allegedly for attacking members of the armed forces. SUN Yancai, GONG Chuanchang, and LIAN Zenguo were arrested in Beijing on June 10, allegedly for looting.

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YANG Hong, 36, a reporter of a Kunming paper Zhongguo Qingnian Ban, was arrested on June 13 in Kunming, Yunnan, for circulating rumor-mongeng killed and protesting against corruption. We Razza and Wang Cun were arrested at the same time, according to a Kunming radio broadcast (FBS, June 16, 1980) ZHANG Jun (not to be confused with someone of the same name arrested in Beijing), a self-employed worker, was arrested on June 14 in Churbong, according to the same report. Under the name of Tang Shije, he wrote for Qinghai Wenue Bao and was editor in chief of Xiaomi Bao and Xinfeng Zaobao, newspapers which apparently circulated during demonstrations in Kunming,

Three workers were arrested in Jinan City on June 15: LIU Yubin, CHE Honghan, ZHANG Xmchan, SHAO Liangchen and HAO Jingguang, All had been involved with the Workers Self-Governing Federation of Jinan City and the Workers Democratic Federation. A Jinan radio report (FBIS, June 16, 1989) said an amalgam of the two organizations planned to seize political power by armed force. LIU Yubin was a worker at the Qianqiaoju Textile Company of Jinan. He and Che Honglian were named as the leaders of the group.

LI Mingxian was arrested on June 16 in Fushun City, Liaoning, A 30-year-old jobless worker from Gaixian County, he entered Beijing on May 13 and joined the "counter-revolutionary rebellion" there on June 34. He was captured in Beijing but escaped and fled to Fushun via Yingkou (FBIS June 16, 1989).

XIAO Han was arrested in Dalian (date not known) for spreading rumors on Central Television, according to a Shenyang,Liaoning radio report. He also spread rumors in Tiananmen Square, Xinhua Gate, Zhongshan intersection and elsewhere, according to the radio, and incited people to take part in the "rebellion." He was charged under article 102 of the Criminal Code.

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ZHAO Guoliang and HAN Yanjun were arrested by the Public Security Bureau in Chifeng City on June 5. ZHAO, 22, was a self-employed garment seller from Wuhai City, according to a Hohot, Inner Mongolia radio broadcast, and had participated in the Dare-to-Die Corps in Tiananmen Square. The broadcast said he kidnapped two public security personnel and stormed the Beijing Public Security Bureau. He was also accused of helping student leader Chai Ling leave Tiananmen Square on June 4.

Han Yanjun, 24, from Dingzhou City, Hebei also had been a member of the Dare-to-Die Corps. He was accused of spreading rumors that martial law troops had "caused bloodshed" in Tiananmen Square. He and Zhou left for Chifeng by train on June 4, according to the report (FBIS June 19, 1989).

HE Qunyin and YOU Dianqi, two "core members" of the Beijing independent workers' association were captured in Xian on June 14, according to a UPI report. Both were accused of taking part in a May 28 protest outside Beijing police headquarters to demand the release of detained workers. They were also accused of attacking army troops.

On June 13, a leader of the Beijing Autonomous Workers Union named LIU Huanwen, 28, was arrested in Shijiazhuang after fleeing Beijing on June 9, according to the Hong Kong Standard (June 17, 1989). In his possession were reportedly passes signed by Wuer Kaixi, one of the 21 "most wanted" students. Liu Huanwen had been a worker of the Special Steel Branch Company of the Shoudo Iron and Steel Company but had received unemployment insurance since the end of 1987 according to a June 14 broadcast of Beijing television (FBIS, June 15, 1989). He was accused of having incited sit-ins and demonstrations. He was arrested at 10pm by police of the Yongan Street Police Station of the Qiaoxi Sub-bureau of the Shijiazhuang City Public Security Bureau after citizens reported his presence.

LIU Qiang, another leader of the independent workers association in Beijing was arrested June 14 following the broadcast of a special "wanted list" of three union leaders. He was arrested in Inner Mongolia, and state television showed him being hauled off a train.

LIU Congxi, a leader of the Xian Workers' Self-Government Federation was arrested around June 11, according to a Xian radio broadcast (June 12, 1989) and accused of inciting citizens to "besiege" the Xian City Federation of Trade Unions, smash its signboard and go on strike. According to the radio, "the reactionary declaration made by this group of people and their letter to all workers throughout the city viciously attacked the leaders of the party and state in an organized, planned and guided way."

On June 10, ZHU Huiming, LI Huling and RUI Tonghu were arrested together with seven others in Nanjing, according to a June 10 broadcast of Xinhua News Agency. All were members of the Autonomous Workers Federation which had established contacts with the Nanjing Autonomous College Students Federation, according to the report. The radio broadcast singled out the three of the 10 arrested who had previous convictions: Zhu was a vagrant who had been detained for "beating other people"; he was accused of fabricating a story that his brother had been killed in Beijing. Li was a worker in the No.1 farm under the Nanjing City Public Transportation Company who had served two years of "education through labor" for fighting. Rui, a leader of the workers pickets, was a self-employed car repairman who had served one year in prison in 1979 for "injuring people", according to the report.

GUO Yaxiong, a member of the Self-governing Union of Workers of Beijing Municipality, was arrested sometime in mid-June, according to a Beijing television broadcast of June 14. A native of Hunan, he drafted a "Declaration of the Dragon" and "distributed it here and there in an effort to egg on people to make trouble."

LI Rongfu, also from Shanghai, was arrested on June 7 and accused of instigating students to sabotage various means of transportation, according to Shanghai Radio. The 39-year-old taxi driver approached a group of students gathered at the intersection of Siping and Xingang Roads, according to the radio and urged them to adopt new "struggle tactics" including setting up roadblocks.

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SONG Ruiyang, a woman inspector from Jonghu Steel Mill, was arrested on June 7, according to Shanghai Radio (June 10, 1989). She is accused of having "spread rumors and instigated onlookers" during a demonstration, stopped cars and deflated their tires, and "falsely claimed that her son was killed in Beijing."

LIU Jian, a worker of the No.1 Shanghai Aluminum Alloy Plant, ZHU Genhao, of the Shanghai Shipping Corporation, and CHENG Qiyang, occupation unknown, were arrested between June 6 and June 9, accused of setting up road blocks in Shanghai and instigating others to do the same. Cheng alone was accused of letting the air out of the tires of 36 vehicles apparently during a demonstration to protest the Beijing massacre. XIAO Bin, 42, an unemployed factory worker, was arrested on June 10 after having been interviewed by ABC News on the Tiananmen Square massacre. The ABC broadcast showed him imitating how machine guns had mowed down demonstrators. He was turned in shortly after Beijing television appealed to viewers to turn him in for rumor-mongering and is now in police custody. Although initial news reports referred to Xiao as unemployed, a report in the English-language China Daily, a government paper, called him a salesman with Dalian Xinghai Aluminum Window Factory and said he had been arrested in Dalian.

In another arrest in Shanghai, a worker named SHEN Zhigao, an employee of a warehouse of the Shanghai Toy Company, was arrested on June 11 for spreading counter-revolutionary propaganda at the People's Square and the Finance and Economics University. He was also accused of carrying out unspecified "instigation" at the gate of Tongji University in Shanghai.

WANG Wei and ZHANG Jun, two members of a Citizen's Dare-to-Die Corps in Beijing were arrested on June 11 by the Martial Law Enforcement Command acting in coordination with the Public Security Bureau, according to a Beijing television broadcast on June 12. Zhang is a native of Hebei and had been in Tiananmen Square every night from May 20 until the army assault on June 3-4. He was accused of "shielding" the radio station there and spreading rumors against the party and government. Wang was reported to be a leader of the "No.9 Team" of the Dare-to-Die Corps and was accused of assaulting soldiers with bottles on the night of June 3. "On June 5, while leading corps members in escorting ringleaders of the Autonomous Union of College Students in Beijing to flee to other places, he unscrupulously spread counterrevolutionary rumors about a bloodbath on Tiananmen Square aboard the train," the broadcast reported (FBIS, June 14, 1989).

Yang Fuqian, 27, a leader of the independent workers association in Beijing, was also arrested on June 10. A worker at the Beijing No. 4 Hydraulic Plant, Yang became a member of the association on May 22, according to Beijing Radio, and was appointed leader of the third picket detachment. The radio report said Yang made a "preliminary confession" that he had instigated people to storm the Beijing Public Security Bureau (police headquarters). That "confession" may have been extracted by force or intimidation. Yang appeared on a state television program in the presence of an interrogator on June 11, and according to a UPI report, "The prisoner was groggy and his speech was slurred from an apparent beating that swelled his right cheek. Several of the other suspects also appeared to have suffered beatings."

GAO Yunming, 31, was among 37 persons arrested in Shenyang on June 8, according to a Xinhua radio report broadcast on June 9. He was a worker in the Mutual Inductance Instrument Factory in Shenyang City and was one of eight out of the 37 who will be tried; the others will be released after re-education, according to the report.

HUANG Jianhu, an assembly worker at the water meter plant of the Shanghai Water Company, was arrested on June 8 for directing a "flying vehicle squad" to set up road barricades, according to Shanghai Radio (June 10, 1989). Squad members, some 200 in all, shouted "reactionary sogans" and incited workers to strike, according to the radio.

LI Weiguo, 22, a peasant from Shili village, Mazhai township, Juancheng county, Shandong, was arrested on June 8 for having taken part in the Beijing "Dare to Die Corps" and for distributing leaflets about "The Truth of June 3" in front of the Heze Specialized Teachers School. According to Shandong radio, Li went to Beijing on May 15 to support the student hunger strikers. He made contact there with students from Heze and

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through them entered the dare-to-die corps, the radio said. On June 5, he left Beijing to go to Qingdao and Yantai to make contact with unidentified persons. He returned to Heze on June 8 and was promptly arrested, according to the report.

On June 9, nine worker leaders in Shanghai were arrested. The nine, including CHEN Shangfu, WANG Miaogen and WANG Hong, were leaders of the Shanghai Self-governing Council of Trade Unions, according to a Beijing Radio broadcast (FBIS, June 12, 1989). They are accused of holding secret meetings, advocating strikes, and chanting reactionary slogans. According to the radio, "They also vilified the Shanghai Council of Trade Unions as being totally paralyzed."

On June 8, four members of the Shanghai-based "Patriotic Volunteer Army" were arrested. They had taken part in a demonstration in the Bund on the evening of June 8, claiming that 200,000 troops were on their way to suppress the students, according to a Shanghai Radio report. One of them, a private entrepreneur named ZHANG Qiwang, was a member of the Self-Governing Union of Workers. He was released from an earlier jail term in January 1988. According the the radio report, he had incited people to take the bodies of victims killed in a June 6 riot from hospital mortuaries.

Also on June 8, Beijing television reported that eight members of a youth "Dare-to-Die Corps" were arrested in Taipei, Harbin, Heilongjang Province. They had ridden through the streets reportedly shouting, "Long Live Dao Qiang Pao"; Dao Qiang Pao trnaslates as "Knife, Gun, Artillery" and according to the television, was the name of a gang responsible for murder and arson.

HU Liangbin was arrested in Wuhan, Hubei on June 7 together with several others for overturning trucks, blocking traffice and setting fire to a public vehicle. Hu is unemployed. Arrested with him were YANG Gechuang, CHEN Wei, and JIN Tao.

LIU Yihai, an employee of Trucking Unit No. 5 of a transport company in Harbin, was among 33 people arrested in Harbin on June 6, according to a Xinhua radio broadcast. He was accused of robbing trucks in the Nangang District of Harbin City and said he did so "because he hated the government", according to the radio report.

One worker is reported to have been arrested in Shanghai on May 31 for making a pro-democracy speech; his name is SHEN Jizhong, a florist in his 40's. No other details about him are available, and it is not known whether he was released before the June 3-4 crackdown.

Other workers arrested include GAO Jingfang, ZHU Guanghua, and LI Xiaohu, from the Hangzhou Self-Governing Workers' Association.

Three people have been arrested for killing a soldier in Beijing: Zhao Yue Tang, a peasant; Yang Zhizen, a worker; and Li Wei Dong, unemployed.

In addition to those arrested, the Chinese authorities have publicly issued arrest warrants for two senior leaders of the independent workers' movement, Han Tongfang and He Lili. Han, 26, is a railway worker at the Fengtai Locomotive Maintenance Section. He, 26, is a lecturer at the Workers' University of the Beijing Bureau of Machinery Industry.

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BAO Tong and CAO Siyuan are both senior advisers to Party Secretary General Zhao Ziyang. Cao, according to Amnesty International, is believed to have been arrested on the afternoon of June 3. Bao Tong may have been arrested several days earlier. Since January 1988, Bao Tong, 56, had been head of the Communist Party's Political Reform Research Center and was a member of the Central Committee. He is identified with the reformist views of his mentor, Zhao Ziyang, but rejected Western-style democracy as "irrelevant" for China, according to an article in the Asian Wall Street Journal (December 26, 1988).

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