Jennifer Zeng

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Jennifer Zeng (born October 19, 1966 ) is a human rights activist and author from the People's Republic of China . In the West she is best known for her book Witnessing History: One Chinese Woman's Fight for Freedom and Falun Gong ( ISBN 978-1741144000 ) , published in 2005 .

Life and education

She was born in Sichuan Province and later studied at Peking University. She completed her studies there with a master's degree in biochemistry . She started practicing Falun Gong in 1997 . She has been arrested four times since the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in the late 1990s, and the fourth time in 2000, she spent a year in one of the labor camps. “These camps are part of a whole system that is outside the Chinese legal system. People are locked up there without a trial and without the possibility of hiring a lawyer, ”she said in an interview in Tel Aviv. "Everyone who has been to one of these camps and also in prison says the camps are much worse because you have to do forced labor there and nobody really cares if you are dead the next morning." To get out of the labor camp Zeng had to sign a declaration stating that she no longer believes in the teachings of Falun Gong and write long articles explaining why the movement is dangerous. Eventually she fled to Australia in 2001.

Relationship with Falun Gong

In 1997, Zeng started to practice Falun Gong. Later, when the People's Republic of China government began arresting people involved in the group, it was one of them. In fact, she was arrested four times and sent to a labor camp, Beijing Municipal Women's Re-education Labor Camp, for rehabilitation. Zeng said she had been physically and mentally abused, brainwashed, and even given electric shock treatment in the camp. She also stated that while they were in the camp, on days when there were visitors, she and the other inmates were forced to play cards or basketball so the visitors could see.

credentials

  1. ^ Nirit Anderman: Reason for Arrest: Your Thoughts. Jennifer Zeng Wants Israelis to Know What Happens in China. In: Haaretz . February 15, 2019, accessed on July 22, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c Shar Adams: Beijing Labor Camp Tour Will Be Fake Warns Victim. In: Epoch Times . August 17, 2008, online. ( Memento from September 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Contemporary Authors Online , Gale, 2009, [1] . Retrieved July 8, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Zeng, Jennifer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese human rights activist and author
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1966