List of the Summoned, Arrested and Disappeared Since July 2018
Beginning in July of 2019, China began a massive crackdown on labor activists lasting over a year and affecting over a hundred workers, students, NGO staff and even grassroots trade u...
Jul 27, 2019
Yue Xin
Yue Xin, a 2018 graduate of Peking University, has emerged as a leading voice in China’s #MeToo movement as well as a strong advocate for workers’ rights. She was disappeared on Augus...
Jul 20, 2019
Yu Juncong
Yu Juncong—the author of the first open letter to Jasic Technology and one of the first Jasic workers to openly protest the company’s policies—was fired in May 2018 for his actions. O...
Jul 20, 2019
Yang Zhengjun
Mr Yang Zhengjun, nickname ‘Baozi’ on the internet, was born in 1986 in Chongqing, China. He is a defender of labour rights in China, and one of the three editors of Xinshengdai (iLab...
Jul 20, 2019
Wei Zhili
Mr Wei Zhili, born in 1988, from Guangzhou, is a senior Chinese labour rights defender and the husband of Zheng Churan (also known as ‘Da Tu’), a famous feminist activist in China. Mr...
Jul 20, 2019
Song Jiahui
Ms Song Jiahui was arrested on January 20, 2019, the reason is yet unknown. Other labour rights activists including Wu Gui-jun, Zhang Zhi-ru, Jian Hui and He Yuan-cheng were also arre...
Jul 20, 2019
Shen Mengyu
Sun Yat Sen University Master’s graduate, Guangzhou NHK Spring Precision woman worker, democratically elected worker bargaining representation, and one of the initiators of the Jasic ...
Jul 20, 2019
Mi Jiuping
Mi Jiuping, one of the central worker-leaders of the Jasic union formation effort in China’s manufacturing hub of Shenzhen, is one of four workers against whom charges have been press...
Jul 20, 2019
Liu Penghua
Liu Penghua, along with Mi Jiuping, was one of the three workers who took the lead in trying to form a union at the Jasic welding equipment factory in Shenzhen, China. Liu was the fir...
Jul 20, 2019
Li Zhan
Li Zhan is a former worker at the Jasic welding equipment factory in China’s manufacturing hub of Shenzhen. He is one of four workers against whom charges have been pressed for “distu...
Jul 20, 2019
Li Dajun
On May 8, 2019, the offices of Lengquan Hope Community, a non-profit organization serving the children of migrant workers,were ransacked. The leader of the organization, a professiona...
Jul 20, 2019
Ke Chengbing
Mr Ke Chengbing, or nickname ‘Laomu’ on the internet, born in Hubei in 1989, is a senior Chinese labour rights defender. He was also one of the three editors of Xinshengdai (ILabour.n...
Jul 20, 2019
Fu Changguo
In China, the issuing of a ‘Notice of Detention’ from a local public security branch is already enough to strip a citizen of all person freedom indefinitely. Such is the case of labou...
Jul 20, 2019