The violent arsenal of the autocrat includes not just soldiers to enforce martial law, but also many other groups. Public security, public prosecutors, and the courts in seemingly every medium and large city, and most small cities, participated in the crackdown, counting, and reprisals against those who joined the 1989 people's movement. Information from human rights organization the Dui Hua Foundation shows that, after the June 4th crackdown, more than a hundred people were sentenced to death; c. 15,000 were arrested and imprisoned, and many of those were tortured. Li Wangyang, Liu Xiaobo, Liu Xianbin, and others who participated in the 1989 movement have continued to resist and been repeatedly imprisoned as a result; some have even been persecuted to death. Among the 'stability maintenance' systems created after the June 4th crackdown, local law enforcement agencies have done their worst to erase any post-crackdown resistance, even trying to blot out all memory of the movement.

The crackdown organizations listed here are some of those listed in documents already obtained: General Office of the Central Military Commission; People's Liberation Army General Logistics Department; State Council; Beijing City Government; Ministry of Public Security; Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau; Shanghai Intermediate People's Court; Beijing Intermediate People's Court; Supreme People's Court; Qincheng Prison; Hangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau; Linping Prison; Guiyang Intermediate People's Court; Hunan Province Huaihua Region Intermediate Court; Changsha Municipal Public Security Bureau; Changsha Intermediate People's Court; Suining Municipal Public Security Bureau; Suining Intermediate People's Court; Chuandong Prison, Dazhu County, Sichuan Province; Sichuan Province Prison #3; Ya'an Prison; Chongqing Xishanping Re-education through Labor Camp; Jiangbei Prison, Chongqing; Chuandong Prison, Sichuan Province; Beijing Municipal Prison #2; Beijing Juvenile Reformatory Center; Yanqing Prison, Beijing; China Central Television; Sanfenchang, Qinghe Farm; Bafenchang, Qinghe Farm; Hengyang Prison (Yanbei Prison); Yueyang Intermediate People's Court; Yongzhou Prison (Hunan Province Prison #3); Chishan Prison (Hunan Province Prison #1); Lanzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau; Lanzhou Municipal Detention Center; Lanzhou Prison; Sichuan Province Prison #1; Sichuan Province Prison #2; Sichuan Province Prison #3; Peng'an Prison, Sichuan Province; Chongqing Detention Center; Weibei Reform through Labor Camp; Wangcun Re-education through Labor Camp, Jinan; Tongling Prison, Anhui; etc.