Ding Guixiong / 丁贵雄 is a democracy activist from Wuyuan County, Inner Mongolia, documented in connection with the China Democracy Party (CDP) during the 1998 crackdown.
Profile
Contemporaneous reporting identified Ding, then reported as age 36, as a Wuyuan/Inner Mongolia CDP activist. Human-rights and news reporting documented repeated police questioning and his detention in late December 1998. Later rights reporting continued to identify him with CDP activity and documented police restrictions in subsequent years.
China Democracy Party activity
The available independent evidence establishes Ding’s CDP identity in 1998. A later reproduction of the February 6, 1999 China Democracy Party United Headquarters notice lists him among 31 committee members. Because the original notice has not yet been recovered, this formal committee role remains source-attributed rather than treated as independently verified from the primary document.
Detention and pressure
Multiple contemporaneous sources corroborate Ding’s detention in late December 1998 following repeated police questioning. The exact duration and legal disposition of that detention remain unresolved in the controlled evidence. Later reports describe continued questioning or restrictions, but those episodes should not be merged into a single continuous custody period.
Evidence status
The research baseline includes contemporaneous Radio Free Asia reporting, Human Rights Watch, Irish Times reporting, dpa-era coverage, later rights reporting, and the reproduced United Headquarters notice. Primary-document gaps include the original December 1998 detention record, original CDP membership or preparatory records, the original February 6, 1999 United Headquarters notice, and later police summons or restriction records.
Free China preserves source conflicts and evidentiary limits rather than inferring missing custody dates, offices, or legal outcomes.