Wu Jianmin

Wu Jianmin (; born 1963) is a Chinese dissident and democracy activist from Nanjing, Jiangsu. He studied at Jiangsu Institute of Commercial Management Cadres and is one of the main leaders at the Nanjing Students' Autonomous Federation.

Political activism From 1982 to 1986, Wu Jianmin served in the People's Liberation Army Navy. He began studying at the Jiangsu Institute of Commercial Management Cadres in 1987.

In 1989, Wu participated in the student-led democracy movement and was elected as a leader. He organized and led the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests at many Nanjing universities. On the morning of June 1, Wu led a student procession of about 10,000 people from Gulou square in Nanjing to support the Tiananmen Square protests. On June 4, the student procession led by Wu went to a small town called Zhang Baling in Chuzhou in Anhui Province. He was sent back to Nanjing by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

After the June 4th movement, he formed a political party called the China Democracy Front, and served as the chairman. In the summer of 1990, when the first issue of the China Democracy Front magazine was published, he was found by the Nanjing Public Security Bureau. He is listed as political prisoner No. 001 of arrest by the Ministry of State Security in Nanjing and secretly detained in the military prison.

After release Wu Jianmin was early released from prison in 1997 after American government's negotiation. In 2017, he founded the channel Jianmin On Overthrowing Autocracy on YouTube.

Wu was invited to attend commemorative activities for the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre and delivered speeches in Washington, D.C., Vancouver, Toronto, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, New Yorkas well as in other places.