Media Reports

Guangdong Provincial Radio reports on Feb. 7, 1979 at 11:30 GMT on the official rehabilitation of the Li Yizhe Group (translation by SWB, 10.2.1979)

Dispatch by the official "New China News Agency" (Xinhua) from Feb. 8, 1979, reporting the rehabilitation of authors of the dazibao.

"Illegal Law and Crime without Guilt" - a speech by Li Zhengtian at an official youth congress in Guangzhou (Guanchajia, no. 8, 1980, pp.15-17)

 

 

 

 

Left: "Bloody Warning" - in August 1979 Li Zhengtian was invited by the Guangzhou party newspaper "Nanfang Ribao" to write an article on the fate of Zhang Zhixin who had been tortured and eventually executed in 1975 for criticizing Mao.

The second CCP led Hong Kong daily "Da-Kung-Pao" reports on the release of the Li Yizhe Group the same day in an article from Guangzhou by a special correspondent.

"The Guangdong Provincial Committee Has Rectified the Li Yizhe Case in a Mass Meeting" (Jiefang Ribao, Shanghai, 14.2.1979, p.3)

"Illegal Law and Crime without Guilt" - a speech by Li Zhengtian at an official youth congress in Guangzhou (Guanchajia, no. 8, 1980, pp.15-17)