Tiananmen Liquor Activist Jailed For 3.5 Years

The last of four men sentenced in Sichuan province for producing a home-made liquor commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen massacre was jailed on Thursday for three and a half years.

Chen Bing could only have to spend several months behind bars, however, being as he has been in detention since May 2016.

Three other men sentenced separately by a court in Chengdu this week for the same charge of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble" were spared jail and were given suspended prison terms instead.

The baijiu the four made was called ‘Remember Eight Liquor Six Four’, referring to the PLA's killing of protesting students on June 4, 1989.

They sold the liquor online for 89.64 yuan.

The authorities seized the bottles produced. But one was smuggled out of the country to the Middle East, the US and eventually Hong Kong, where it was put on display in 2017 at a June 4 exhibition.