Second Activist Spared Jail Over Tiananmen Liquor

A second activist arrested on the mainland three years ago over the sale of a liquor that commemorated the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown has been given a three-year suspended jail sentence by a court in Chengdu.

Zhang Junyong was one of four men who made the biaiju called ‘Remember Eight Liquor Six Four’, referring to the massacre of protesting students on June 4, 1989.

They sold this homemade liquor online for 89.64 yuan.

The men were detained in May 2016 accused of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble".

Another of the four, Fu Hailu, was also given a suspended jail term of three years on Monday.

Mainland authorities seized all the offending liquor, apart from one bottle which made its way to the Middle East, on to Washington and eventually Hong Kong where it went on display in 2017 at a June 4 exhibition.