Current custody · Region: Mainland China · Last verified: 2026-09-01
Release-date control: Current status verified: imprisoned. No definitive release/completion date is published without controlling court, prison, appellate or release evidence. Last status review: September 16, 2026.
Research status: Details pending / research in progress.
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Current custody and release / sentence-completion status
Current continuous custody start: 2019-12-26.
Sentence / judgment: On 2023-04-10, sentenced to 12 years’ imprisonment for “subversion of state power,” followed by 3 years’ deprivation of political rights.
Release / sentence-completion date: Not independently established by a controlling court, prison, appellate, or release record. Free China does not project a future release date from sentence arithmetic.
Evidence rule: The verified custody start, 12-year sentence and ordered 3-year deprivation of political rights are recorded separately. A future completion or release date will be added only when directly supported by controlling legal, prison, appellate, or release evidence.
Last verified: 2026-09-01.
Verified profile
Ding Jiaxi is a Chinese human-rights lawyer and New Citizens Movement participant. Human Rights Watch identifies him as a prominent rights lawyer/activist and documents his prosecution alongside Xu Zhiyong.
Key chronology
- Rights-defense and New Citizens Movement activities in the 2010s.
- Participant in the December 2019 Xiamen civil-society gathering.
- Detained in late 2019; reports of prolonged incommunicado detention and ill-treatment require primary corroboration.
- Sentenced on April 10, 2023 to 12 years for “subversion of state power.”
Verified sources
Research still pending
Xiamen meeting records; detention notices; indictment, judgment and appeal documents; Ding’s letters and essays; family/health/treatment evidence; multilingual media; interviews, video and images.
Last research audit: August 29, 2026.
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