Zhai Weimin / 翟伟民
Classification: Democracy activist and China Democracy Party organizer
Geographic context: Henan and Beijing, mainland China
Period: 1989–1999
Profile
Zhai Weimin is a democracy activist whose record spans the 1989 movement and the 1998 China Democracy Party organizing campaign. Archived participant material identifies him as a Beijing Economics Institute student activist who was imprisoned after 1989.
Later historical documentation records Zhai’s participation in the October 1998 effort to establish a Henan CDP preparatory committee. Contemporaneous Washington Post reporting in December 1998 described his effort to register the CDP in Henan and his participation in a hunger-strike protest; Human Rights Watch independently records brief detention and questioning during the same period.
Evidence and source controls
The Henan CDP registration activity is materially supported by contemporaneous reporting and later human-rights documentation. The exact application text, signatory date, and national-role wording remain dependent on original records.
Zhai’s post-1989 detention and trial history is independently anchored, but differing descriptions of the exact sentence and release chronology are not normalized without the original judgment. The 1998 hunger-strike repression is independently corroborated.
Primary-source gaps
Priority records include original 1989 wanted, arrest, judgment and release records; the original 1998 Henan CDP application; the original national preparatory roster; and 1999 police or detention records.
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