# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/li-wangyang
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:19:38.014Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/li-wangyang"
name: "Li Wangyang"
slug: "li-wangyang"
description: "Li Wangyang was a Chinese dissident labor rights activist, member of the Workers Autonomous Federation and chairman of the Shaoyang WAF branch. Following his role in the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, he served twenty-one years in prison on charges of counterrevolutionary propaganda, incitement, and subversion. Of all Chinese pro-democracy activists from 1989, Li spent the longest time in prison. On 6 June 2012, one year after his release from prison, and a few days after a television interview in which he continued to call for vindication of the Tiananmen Square protests, Li was found hanged in a hospital room. Shaoyang city authorities initially claimed suicide was the cause of death, but it was revised to 'accidental death' after the autopsy."
tagline: "Chinese dissident labor rights activist (1950–2012)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/64/Li_Wangyang.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "China"
  isoCode: "CN"
birthDate: "1950-11-12"
deathDate: "2012-06-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.61
  momentum:             7.307162534435263
  historical:           7.090468
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/%E6%9D%8E%E6%97%BA%E9%99%BD-%E5%85%AD%E5%9B%9B%E7%A1%AC%E6%BC%A2-167637683366255"
    handle:    "李旺陽-六四硬漢-167637683366255"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%8E%E6%97%BA%E9%99%BD%E4%BA%8B%E4%BB%B6"
    title: "李旺陽事件"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Wangyang"
    title: "Li Wangyang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Li_Wangyang"
    title: "Death of Li Wangyang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Wangyang"
    title: "Li Wangyang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Wangyang"
    title: "Li Wangyang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morte_de_Li_Wangyang"
    title: "Morte de Li Wangyang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A6%AC%EC%99%95%EC%96%91"
    title: "리왕양"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%8E%E6%97%BA%E9%99%BD"
    title: "李旺陽"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q718089"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump