Huang Yanming (known also as Huang Zhongmin), 35, a manager at the Guiyang Yunhai Ornament Company, was sentenced in early or mid-1996 to five years' imprisonment and four years' deprivation of political rights for "actively participating in a counterrevolutionary group" and "counterrevolutionary propaganda and incitement." On June 4, 1995, Huang Yanming, together with Lu Yongxiang, distributed in Beijing's Tiananmen Square a pro-democracy petition letter to Party leaders which the two had helped write in May 1995 (see Chen Xi above). Huang Yanming and Lu Yongziang were apprehended on the spot by plainclothes police; later Huang Yanming was transferred to the Guiyang Municipal Public Security detention center, Guizhou province, where he spent several months in pre-trial detention. (Sources: Human Rights in China - New York)