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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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