- Ding Mao
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Ding Mao (Chinese: 丁矛), born 1968 in Sichuan (Chinese: 四川) Mianyang (Chinese: 绵阳), is a Chinese dissident. As a student, he was one of the leaders of the student democracy movement, known through the Tiananmen Square 1989 protest.[1] He became general manager of an investment company, and one of the founders of the unrecognized Social Democratic Party. Recently, on 19 February 2011,[2] He was criminally detained.[3] Currently he is being held at Mianyang City Detention Center.[4]
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Biography
In the late 1980s, he was a philosophy student at Lanzhou University. There he became a student leader of the 1989 pro-democracy protests.[2] He was twice imprisoned for his activism, first in 1989 and again in 1992 when he was arrested for organizing the Social Democratic Party. He spent a total of 10 years in jail.[4]
Present situation
He was seized from his home on 19 February 2011 and detained by police in Mianyang City, Sichuan Province, on suspicion of "inciting subversion of state power."[2][4]
Police in Mianyang City have blocked meetings between Ding and a lawyer hired for him by his family because, because Ding’s case "involved state secrets," as the police stated.[4]
See also
- 2011 Chinese pro-democracy protests
- China's 2011 crackdown on dissidents
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References
- ^ "China: More than 200 arrests to quell the "jasmine revolution" in China". AsiaNews. 2 April 2011. http://www.asianews.it/news-en/More-than-200-arrests-to-quell-the-jasmine-revolution-in-China-21187.html. Retrieved 13 April 2011.
- ^ a b c [China charges two amid "Jasmine" crackdown "China: More than 200 arrests to quell the "jasmine revolution" in China"]. AFP / New York Daily Post. 29 March 2011. China charges two amid "Jasmine" crackdown. Retrieved 17 April 2011.
- ^ "China arrests dissident in crackdown, human rights group says" (in English). CNN. 13 April 2011. http://articles.cnn.com/2011-04-13/world/china.dissident.arrests_1_china-arrests-chinese-human-rights-defenders-china-democracy-party?_s=PM:WORLD. Retrieved 19 April 2011.
- ^ a b c d "Individuals Affected by the Crackdown Following Call for "Jasmine Revolution"". Chinese Human Rights Defenders. 15 April 2011. http://chrdnet.org/2011/04/15/individuals-affected-by-the-crackdown-following-call-for-“jasmine-revolution”/. Retrieved 16 April 2011.
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