Ding Mao

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. Mao was recently detained on 19 February 2011,^[2][3] and held at Mianyang Municipal Detention Center^[4] before being released into residential surveillance on 2 December 2011.^[5]

Biography

Ding Mao was a philosophy student at Lanzhou University in the late 1980s. 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 has spent a total of 10 years in jail.^[4]

Detention during Jasmine Crackdown

On 19 February 2011, Mao was detained in Chengdu, Sichuan Province by police on "inciting subversion of state power".^[2][4] He washeld at Mianyang Municipal Detention Centre for 286 days before being released into residential supervision.^[5]

Police in Mianyang City had blocked meetings between Ding and a lawyer hired for him by his family because, claiming that Ding’s case "involved state secrets".^[4]

See also

• 2011 Chinese pro-democracy protests
• China's 2011 crackdown on dissidents

References

1. ^ "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. 
2. ^ ^{a b c} "China: More than 200 arrests to quell the "jasmine revolution" in China". AFP / New York Daily Post. 29 March 2011. 
3. ^ "China arrests dissident in crackdown, human rights group says". 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. 
4. ^ ^{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. 
5. ^ ^{a b} Qiao Long and Luisetta Mudie, Activist Released 'Under Surveillance', Radio Free Asia, 2 December 2011.