* Li Hai, 37, was convicted on December 18, 1996, of "prying into and collecting the following information about people sentenced for criminal activities during the June Fourth 1989 period: name, age, family situation, crime, length of sentence, location of imprisonment, treatment while imprisoned." The court stated in its verdict that this information was "high-level state secrets" and sentenced Li to nine years in prison and two years' deprivation of political rights. Li was detained on May 31, 1995, accused of hooliganism and held incommunicado in the Beijing Chaoyang District Detention Center for almost a year before he was formally arrested on April 5, 1996, and indicted on new charges of "leaking state secrets." After his lawyer contested the charge, the court conceded that Li did not "leak" state secrets. As a graduate student in philosophy at Beijing University, Li participated actively in the 1989 protests. In 1990, he spent six months in detention without charge for putting up posters on the Beijin

g University campus to commemorate the first anniversary of the massacre. Li was a signatory of the May 1995 "Draw Lessons from Blood" petition and an initiator of the 1993 "Peace Charter" movement. From 1991 to 1995 he conducted the most comprehensive effort yet to document the fates of hundreds of unknown Beijing residents punished in the June Fourth crackdown. Li Hai is currently imprisoned in Liangxiang, in the outskirts of Beijing. (Sources: Human Rights in China - New York)