Democracy is about who decides our salaries, Mr. Han recalled shouting out to the crowd from the Monument to the People's Heroes in Beijing.
It was one of the first times during the protests that anyone had mentioned workers. And it marked the beginning of Mr. Han's three-decade fight for their rights in China.
The crushing response also disbanded the labor union he had helped to create during the protests, the first and only independent union since the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949.
Today, Mr. Han is one of China's last remaining labor rights activists not in hiding.
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