Yu Dongyue was born in Liuyang, a city in Hunan province of China on December 4,1967.
18 Facts About Yu Dongyue
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Yu Dongyue is the former arts editor of Liuyang Daily.
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Yu Dongyue graduated at age seventeen from Xiangtan Normal College, the same college that Yu Zhijian attended.
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Yu Dongyue got a prestigious first assignment as a fine-arts teacher at a vocational school in Xiangtan city that recruited students nationwide, then was transferred to the propaganda job in Liuyang.
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Yu Dongyue had been transferred to Liuyang to serve as an arts editor, his job consisted of taking photographs and draw illustrations to accompany stories in the paper.
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Yu Dongyue was cerebral like Yu Zhijian, but he shared Decheng's physical prowess.
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Yu Dongyue was an excellent basketball player and preferred to have an early-morning swim, even on winter mornings when the ice had formed at the river's edge in Liuyang.
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In 1989, Yu Dongyue was a twenty-one-year-old arts editor at the Liuyang Daily.
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Yu Dongyue was the one who helped turn Yu Zhijian's ideas into speeches and into the proclamation delivered to the monument, but the radio station didn't report it.
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Yu Dongyue was disappointed about this situation and tried to find a resolution to against the authorities and the ignorance of students.
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Yu Dongyue wrote nine letters, the recipients included his employer, the Liuyang Daily, his family and former classmates.
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Yu Dongyue has sustained a lot torment, then, Yu Zhijian and Yu Dongyue proposed to the new detainees that they need to band together and counter with the prison authorities.
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Yu Dongyue went to Hunan Provincial No 1 Prison, known as Chishan Prison, the Yuanjiang Electrical Machinery factory and the Dongtinghua farm.
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Reportedly, Yu Dongyue was uncooperative in the views of prison officials.
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In 2001 Yu Dongyue's sentence was reduced by two years, and in 2005 it was reduced by another 15 months.
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When he was 38 years old, Yu Dongyue was finally freed from prison on February 22 of 2006 after serving a sentence for 16 years.
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Yu Dongyue was driven insane by 16 years of confinement.
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Yu Dongyue is reported to be incoherent and unable to communicate, repeating words as if he was chanting a mantra.