6 Demands
- political rehabilitation of the 1989 pro-democracy movement
- the right of political exiles to return from abroad
- release Zhao Ziyang from house arrest and restore his political rights
- the release of jailed political prisoners
- ratification of the International Covenant on Political and Civil Rights
- the holding of free elections
The Chinese authorities reacted to its publication with an immediate clampdown and arrest of the more prominent political activists who had signed the letter.
The following notable co-signatories, He Depu, Jiang Lijun, Zhao Changqing, Ouyang Yi, Sang Jiancheng, Han Lifa, and Dai Xuezhong, have been tried for "subversion".
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