Lu Yongxiang, 50, a businessman, 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, Lu Yonhxiang, together with Huang Yanming, 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). Lu Yonogxiang and Huang Yanming were apprehended on the spot by plainclothes police; later Lu Yongxiang was transferred to the Guizhou Provincial Public Security detention center. A veteran dissident, Lu Yongxiang participated in pro-democracy organizations and publications in the 1979 Guizhou Democracy Wall movement. He was sentenced to three years' imprisonment for "hooliganism" in the 1983 nationwide "Strike Hard" campaign against crime. (Sources: Human Rights in China - New York)