毛庆祥（1950年5月24日—），浙江杭州人，自由撰稿人、人权活动家，中国民主党创始党员。1976年“四五运动”参与者，被关押三个月；1978年起投身杭州民主墙运动，担任《四五》《华东》等民刊编辑，1981年因“反革命宣传煽动罪”判刑三年 。1998年积极筹建中国民主党，主编党刊《在野党》 。1999年6月被捕，11月以“颠覆国家政权罪”获刑八年、剥夺政治权利三年，直至2007年9月14日刑满获释 。狱中坚持理念，拒绝减刑，出狱后多次遭监控与骚扰 。他认为推动民主制衡机制能根本抑制腐败 。作为浙江民主运动的先行者，他以笔为剑，长年奋斗，被视为中国民主与人权事业的顽强象征。
Mao Qingxiang (born May 24, 1950), a native of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, is a freelance writer, human rights advocate, and founding member of the China Democracy Party.
A veteran of China’s pro-democracy movement, Mao participated in the April Fifth Movement in 1976 and was detained for three months. Beginning in 1978, he became active in the Democracy Wall Movement, serving as editor of samizdat journals including April Fifth and East China. In 1981, he was sentenced to three years in prison for “counterrevolutionary propaganda and incitement.”
In 1998, Mao played a key role in the formation of the China Democracy Party and served as editor-in-chief of its official publication, The Opposition Party. He was arrested in June 1999 and sentenced in November to eight years in prison and three years’ deprivation of political rights on charges of “subverting state power.” He was released in September 2007 after completing the full sentence.
Refusing to recant or seek leniency, Mao endured imprisonment with resolve and has since been subjected to continued surveillance and harassment. A longtime proponent of institutional checks and balances as the antidote to endemic corruption, he is regarded as a resilient figure in China’s decades-long pursuit of democracy and human rights
