Yang Qing / 杨青
Classification: Democracy activist; China Democracy Party Beijing Preparatory Committee founder.
Human Rights in China and Human Rights Watch identify Yang Qing among five veteran dissidents who established the Beijing China Democracy Party Preparatory Committee on September 16, 1998. This evidence supports his role as a founder or participant in the Beijing preparatory effort; it does not justify assigning a more specific office without the original formation and registration records.
1998 Beijing organizing
The Beijing preparatory committee emerged during the broader 1998 effort to organize and seek legal registration for the China Democracy Party. Yang’s person-specific record is strongest for the September 16 founding episode. Current source review has not recovered a reliable later custody chronology or sufficiently detailed later biography, and those gaps are preserved rather than filled by inference.
Evidence controls
Primary targets remain the original September 16 formation statement, the planned September 18 registration materials, identity and biographical records, and any person-specific police or custody records. Unrelated people sharing the name Yang Qing are excluded from this profile.
Custody status: No reliable person-specific imprisonment chronology established in the reviewed evidence.
This profile is source-bounded and will be enriched as primary records are recovered.