Please speak up for the democratic movement fighters who fight with their pens! Wang Xizhe was sentenced to 14 years in prison

請為以筆桿而戰的民主運動戰士請命! 王希哲被判十四年入獄
Qing wei yi bigan er zhan de minzhu yundong zhanshi qingming! Wang Xizhe bei pan shisi nian ruyu
Please speak up for the democratic movement fighters who fight with their pens! Wang Xizhe was sentenced to 14 years in prison
1981-1982
Publisher unknown
42x30 cm.
BG C7/605

Wang Xizhe (王希哲), a pro-democracy activist and journalist, was arrested in 1981 and sentenced to 14 years in prison for making 'counter-revolutionary propaganda'.
Poster published in Hong Kong.

Quote:
"Back in 1969 when the Cultural Revolution was winding down from its climax and society was becoming peaceful once again, I was often struck by the sad memories of those comrades who fell down one after another beside me. For whom have we fought? For what have we died? I was then thinking of elucidating the causes and consequences of the Cultural Revolution and put them down in writing or I couldn't possibly stand up to those comrades who died. They couldn't have simply died for nothing....."