However, in 1949 the KMT authorities arrested Yang for having signed the "Declaration for Peace," a call to the KMT to release all prisoners of conscience and renounce the White Terror. He was sentenced to 12 years in prison.
一九四九年楊逵因參與簽署「和平宣言」遭到國民黨政府逮捕，被判處十二年徒刑。