‘unite all the various circles.’" At the meeting, Chen Ziming outlined his "tactic for conspiring to subvert the government" when he stated: "the words of the elite will influence the students, and words of the students will influence people throughout the country." Also read aloud at the meeting was the "May 17 Declaration" which stated that the government had "lost its capacity for human feeling", and was "under the power of an autocrat." It further characterized the 1989 Student protests as "a great patriotic and democratic movement which will finally bury autocracy and end the system of rule by emperor." On May 19, Chen Ziming convened a meeting where a "counterrevolutionary leaflet" was written which stated that "military rule is about to be enforced" and "incited the masses" to "begin a nationwide work strike, class boycott, and market boycott." On the evening of May 23, Chen Ziming and Wang Juntao summoned the leaders of the "Command Headquarters of Tiananmen Square", the "Beijing Students' Autonomous Federation", the "Beijing Workers' Autonomous Federation", the "Beijing Citizens Autonomous Federation", the "Citizens Dare-to-Die Squad", and other organizations together and founded the "Joint Liaison Group of All Circles in the Capital for the Patriotic Upholding of the Constitution." In mid-May, Chen Ziming sent others to print several hundred copies of a "counterrevolutionary leaflet" which called China's socialist system "politically, judicially, and journalistically dark" and "vilified" the Chinese Communist Party. At the end of May and beginning of June, Chen Ziming and Wang Juntao "secretly conspired to set up places where they could go into hiding." The court ruled that "these acts constitute the crime of plotting to subvert the government and the crime of counterrevolutionary propaganda and incitement and must be punished according to law." Wang's Defence claimed Yan Mingfu, head of the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, sent Zheng Yefu to invite Wang and others to "get involved immediately" in the movement to "serve as a bridge between the students and the government." Thus, the Defence claimed Wang Juntao and Chen Ziming involved themselves in the movement to "fulfill the task assigned to them by the party." At his trial, Chen Ziming rejected the charges against him as "unfair and incorrect." Sentencing On February 12, 1991, both Chen Ziming and Wang Juntao were sentenced to 13 years in prison. The Xinhua News Agency stated that the two