Hada
Founder of the Southern Mongolian Democratic Alliance. Arrested 10 December 1995. Deprived of his freedom ever since.
- Organisation
- Southern Mongolian Democratic Alliance, founded May 1992; chairman
- Arrested
- 10 December 1995, at home in Hohhot
- Sentence
- 11 November 1996: fifteen years for “separatism” and “espionage”, plus four years' deprivation of political rights
- Sentence expired
- 10 December 2010; not released, held in detention
- Released
- December 2014, then held under house arrest
- Status
- Hospitalised with organ failure on 25 January 2025; family denied visits since 6 February 2025, whereabouts unknown
- Family
- Wife Xinna detained four months in 1996; son Uiles jailed for two years in 2002
Thirty years without freedom
In May 1992 Hada founded the Southern Mongolian Democratic Alliance in Hohhot to defend Mongol rights under Chinese law. On 10 December 1995 he was arrested at home; in November 1996 he was sentenced to fifteen years for “separatism” and “espionage”. His wife Xinna was detained for four months; his son Uiles was later jailed for two years.
Released from prison in December 2010, Hada was held for four more years without charge, then placed under house arrest. In January 2025 he was hospitalised with organ failure; since February 2025 his family has not been allowed to see him. In 2025 the party honoured him with the “Spiritual Leader of Southern Mongolia” award.
Sources
- English Wikipedia: “Hada (activist)”
- SMHRIC: the party’s centenary conference, 6 October 2025
- SMHRIC: joint statement calling for Hada’s release, 14 April 2025
Documents and reports (1996–2014)
- Mar 2014Hada photographed while held in suburban Hohhot (SMHRIC)
- Mar 2011Statement of an SMHRIC representative in front of the Chinese Embassy in the Netherlandsarchived
- Jan 2011Campaign for releasing Hada and other Southern Mongolian dissidentsarchived
- Dec 2010Hada's whereabouts remain unknown after his sentence expiresarchived
- Dec 2010Mongolian activist's son: China police took motherarchived
- Oct 2010Release date passed and ethnic Mongolian political prisoner still held (SMHRIC)archived
- Feb 2010内蒙古草原英雄哈達的妻子新娜沒有哭archived
- 2009VOA: Hada's wife hopes for President Obama's attentionarchived
- 2008BBC: “The international community ignores violations of Mongol rights”archived
- 2001Biography of Hadaarchived
- Dec 1999Press release, 10 December 1999archived
- 1998A letter from Xinna to President Clintonarchived
- 1996Verdict of the Hohhot Municipal Intermediate People's Courtarchived
- 1996IMPP report: Xinna and her son detained and harassedarchived
- 1990sThe Southern Mongolian Democratic Alliance and its imprisoned membersarchived
Links marked “archived” point to pages from the party’s former website innermongolia.org (1997–2015), recovered from the Internet Archive in 2026.
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