Mei Shi

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Mei, editor- in- chief of Yueyang Evening News in Hunan Province, received a four- year sentence in April 1990 on charges of “counterrevolutionary propaganda and incitement.” He had published articles exposing corruption in the Communist Party, and after martial law was declared in Beijing in 1989, he continued to praise the protesters. He is being held in Hengyang Provincial Prison No. 2.