Yang Lin

Yang Lin is a migrant worker who became involved in activities defending human rights following a workplace accident in 2006 which led him to begin petitioning higher authorities for a fair resolution. During the course of his petitioning he started helping others who were also seeking justice for the various wrongs they had suffered. Following this he engaged in various aspects of human rights defence, including reporting on human rights abuses, signing the pro-democracy and pro-human rights manifesto Charter 08, and calling for constitutionalism, human rights and democracy.