CNHRA EVENT RECORD · CNHRA-E-559198
Ding Jiaxi: New Citizens Movement Detention and Sentence Completion, 2013–2016
Date
2013-04
Location
Beijing, China
Event Type
Detention · Sentencing · Release
Human Rights Issues
Freedom of Expression · Right to a Fair Trial
Record ID
CNHRA-E-559198
Summary
Opinion No. 30/2021 recounts Ding’s detention in April 2013 in connection with New Citizens Movement activities, a three-and-a-half-year sentence and release in 2016. His post-2019 case is linked separately to the Xu Zhiyong proceedings.[1]
Description
Ding participated in the New Citizens Movement, advocating examination access for migrant workers’ children and assisting petitioners. Following detention in April 2013, Beijing’s Haidian court sentenced him to three years and six months on April 18, 2014.[1][2]
Opinion No. 30/2021 recalls the finding in Opinion No. 3/2015 that the earlier detention was arbitrary and required immediate release. The later indictment records completion of the sentence on October 16, 2016.[1][2]
Developments
Detention linked to the New Citizens Movement
Ding was detained in connection with New Citizens Movement activities and later sentenced to three years and six months.[1]
Earlier sentence of three years and six months
Beijing’s Haidian court sentenced Ding to three years and six months, as recounted in the later indictment.[2]
Release after the earlier sentence
The Working Group records release in 2016 after the full three-and-a-half-year term; the cited passage does not specify month or day.[1]
Completes earlier sentence
He completed his three-year-and-six-month sentence and was released, subsequently continuing civic activities.[2]
Related People
Organizations
No organizations have been added.
Documents
Sources
- [1]
CNHRA-S-913785UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
Evidence location: Paragraphs 4–5, 8, 19 and 85–89; adoption date at end, 8 September 2021.
- [2]
CNHRA-S-890395临沂市人民检察院 / China Change
Evidence location: Five pages, indictment Z42 (2021); page 1 procedural dates; page 5 signature date.