Ding Jiaxi

Year and subject recalled in his 2017 interview.[5]

He left an aviation research institute to enter the legal profession, a career change he later recounted in an interview.[5]

According to his interview, he joined a law firm and answered legal questions on radio.[5]

He recalled that the firm received approval on this date.[5]

The Working Group opinion records advocacy for migrant children’s examination access and assistance to petitioners in Beijing.[2]

Ding was detained in connection with New Citizens Movement activities and later sentenced to three years and six months.

His public activities during this period concerned examination opportunities for migrant children and assistance to petitioners. The later published indictment records a three-and-a-half-year sentence on April 18, 2014 and release on October 16, 2016. These records distinguish the first case from the separate prosecution following the 2019 Xiamen gathering.[2][6]

Beijing’s Haidian court sentenced Ding to three years and six months, as recounted in the later indictment.[6]

He completed his three-year-and-six-month sentence and was released, subsequently continuing civic activities.[6]

The Working Group opinion recounts police taking Ding from a residence in Beijing.[2]

The indictment records criminal detention on December 26 followed by RSDL the next day.[6]

The opinion records formal arrest by Linyi police after RSDL, initially on an inciting-subversion charge.[2]

Paragraph 20 of Opinion No. 30/2021 records counsel traveling to the detention center without obtaining a visit.[2]

The Working Group opinion records the denial of another request to meet counsel.[2]

The case was referred to the Linyi procuratorate for prosecution review.[6]

The indictment records notice of the right to retain defense counsel.[6]

The case was returned for supplementary investigation and resubmitted on April 6.[6]

The second supplementary investigation was followed by resubmission on June 21.[6]

Indictment Z42 (2021) charges subversion; its descriptions of meetings and activities are prosecution allegations.

The published indictment records referral for prosecution on January 19 and returns for supplementary investigation on March 6 and May 21, listing gatherings, a website and training among the allegations. It shows how prosecutors constructed the case. Its allegations are not by themselves established judicial facts, and the document is distinct from the later judgment in Xu Zhiyong’s case.[6]

The Working Group found categories I, II, III and V arbitrary detention and called for immediate release, compensation and investigation.[2]

China’s reply records a sentence of twelve years and three years’ deprivation of political rights imposed by Linyi Intermediate People’s Court.

The government reply dates the first-instance sentence to April 10, records twelve years’ imprisonment and three years’ deprivation of political rights, and states that the appeal was rejected on November 24. In 2024, Luo Shengchun separately testified that the family learned of his transfer to Jiangbei Prison in Hubei in November 2023 but had still not received the judgment. Sentencing, appeal and prison transfer are separate stages.[1][3][7]

Luo’s February 2024 testimony reports that Ding was transferred to Jiangbei Prison in Hubei.[7]

China’s reply and the Front Line Defenders case update both record Shandong High People’s Court rejecting the appeal and upholding the judgment.[3][8]