Zheng Enchong

Zheng Enchong ( Chinese : 郑恩宠; Pinyin : Zhèng Ēnchǒng; born September 2, 1950 ) is a Chinese lawyer from Shanghai . In more than 500 cases he represented the expropriation victims of major Shanghai projects. His allegations of corruption eventually led to the fall of the Shanghai party leader.

His license to practice bar was revoked in 2001. In 2003, he was sentenced to three years 'imprisonment for "treason" after sending unpublished information about workers' protests to the American human rights organization Human Rights in China . While still in custody, he was awarded the human rights prize of the German Association of Judges in 2005, despite diplomatic pressure .

The chairman of the German Association of Judges , Chief Public Prosecutor Christoph Frank, described this pressure as follows in his welcoming address at the award of the 10th Human Rights Prize of the German Association of Judges : "At the award ceremony in 2005 for the Chinese lawyer Zheng Enchong, the embassy of the People's Republic of China intervened with the aim When this - of course - was unsuccessful, the Chinese state authorities handed protest notes to the Foreign Office. On the Internet it was read that the human rights award of the German Association of Judges was an invention of a "very small non-governmental organization" opposing the People's Republic China judges Zheng Enchong continues to face reprisals, but the continued interest abroad in his fate also protects him.

In 2006 he was released from prison. He was under house arrest and was regularly intimidated and tortured by the police. In March 2016, Enchong and his wife Jiang Meili were unexpectedly suspended.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Welcome address by the chairman of the German Judges 'Association, Christoph Frank, on the occasion of the award of the 10th Human Rights Prize of the German Judges' Association to lawyer Anwar al-Bunni (Syria) on December 17, 2009 in Berlin (PDF; 46 kB)

Web links

• Peter Frank ( Amnesty International ): Zheng Enchong - still in danger! , in: Deutsche Richterzeitung 2006, p. 33.
• Georg Blume: My house, my prison , in: The time of July 31, 2008

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Zheng is the family name here, Enchong is the first name.