Ding Mao born 1968 in Sichuan

Sichuan

' , known formerly in the West by its postal map spellings of Szechwan or Szechuan is a province in Southwest China with its capital in Chengdu...

  Mianyang , is a Chinese dissident. As a student, he was one of the leaders of the student democracy movement, known through the Tiananmen Square 1989 protest

Tiananmen Square protests of 1989

The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, also known as the June Fourth Incident in Chinese , were a series of demonstrations in and near Tiananmen Square in Beijing in the People's Republic of China beginning on 15 April 1989...

. He became general manager of an investment company, and one of the founders of the unrecognized Social Democratic Party. Recently, on 19 February 2011, He was criminally detained. Currently he is being held at Mianyang City Detention Center.

Biography

In the late 1980s, he was a philosophy student at Lanzhou University. There he became a student leader of the 1989 pro-democracy protests. He was twice imprisoned for his activism, first in 1989 and again in 1992 when he was arrested for organizing the Social Democratic Party. He spent a total of 10 years in jail.

Present situation

He was seized from his home on 19 February 2011 and detained by police in Mianyang City, Sichuan

Sichuan

' , known formerly in the West by its postal map spellings of Szechwan or Szechuan is a province in Southwest China with its capital in Chengdu...

Province, on suspicion of "inciting subversion of state power."

Police in Mianyang City have blocked meetings between Ding and a lawyer hired for him by his family because, because Ding’s case "involved state secrets," as the police stated.