The Latest Breaking News from Ding Jiaxi

Leading human rights lawyer Xu Zhiyong on hunger strike in Chinese prison, family says

Xu is protesting against what he describes as inhumane treatment in prison, including lack of contact with his family

The Guardian - UK · Oct 30, 2024

Chinese lawyer Xu Zhiyong on hunger strike over ‘ill-treatment’ in prison

Xu Zhiyong is serving 14 years in jail for ‘subversion of state power’

The Independent UK · Oct 26, 2024

Chinese Political Prisoner Endures Harsh Treatment In Isolation

Ding Jiaxi's imprisonment in China raises concerns over mistreatment and lack of rights.

Top News · Aug 17, 2024

Two Prominent Chinese Rights Activists Jailed for Over a Decade

The heavy sentences of lawyers Xu Zhiyong and Ding Jiaxi are longer than Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo’s 11-year jail term.

The News Lens · Apr 11, 2023

China jails 2 prominent human rights lawyers for over 10 years

Two prominent Chinese human rights lawyers, including one who had called for leader Xi Jinping to resign, have been jailed for over a decade, an advocacy group and one of the men's wives said Monday.

Bangkok Post · Apr 10, 2023

Rights group: China sentences 2 lawyers on 'farcical' charge

A human rights group says two prominent Chinese human rights lawyers have been sentenced to more than a decade in prison

The Independent UK · Apr 10, 2023

China jails two human rights lawyers for ‘subversion’

Human rights lawyers Xu Zhiyong and Ding Jiaxi are sentenced to more than 10-year jail after a closed-door trial.

Al Jazeera · Apr 10, 2023

China hands lengthy jail terms to two lawyers in rights crackdown

A Chinese court sentenced two prominent human rights lawyers on Monday to jail terms of more than a decade each, a relative and rights groups told Reuters, the latest move in a years-long crackdown on civil society by President Xi Jinping.

Reuters · Apr 10, 2023

Detained activist fears for missing zero-Covid protesters in China

Ding Jiaxi also tells lawyer he is worried about health after being held for more than three years

The Guardian - UK · Feb 18, 2023

U.N. rights chief's tenure ends in disappointment for some China activists

Michelle Bachelet, once a political detainee under Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and a doctor for tortured children, pledged to be the champion of victims when she became U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights in 2018.

Reuters · Aug 31, 2022