Zhu Yufu

Zhu Yufu (Chinese: 朱 虞 夫; Pinyin: Zhū Yúfū), born February 13, 1953 in Hangzhou , Zhejiang , China , is a political dissident. In 1998 he was one of the founders of the unrecognized Democratic Party of China (DPC) . He also founded the Opposition Party magazine with articles on the DPC. He is currently under arrest for publishing a poem that inspired people to participate in the 2011 Chinese democracy protests.

biography

Zhu, a former Shangcheng District real estate worker at Hangzhou City City Housing Bureau , was sentenced in 1999 for inciting subversion of state power and spent five and a half years in prison for founding Opposition Party Magazine . After his release in 2006, he spoke out against the torture suffered in prison and continued democratization. In 2007, after a confrontation with a police officer who questioned his son, he was arrested again and sentenced to two years in prison for "beating the police and obstructing the civil service".

Zhu was abducted by the police on March 7, 2011. Officers also ransacked his home, confiscated two computers and other items. He was criminally arrested on April 11, 2011 on suspicion of inciting subversion of state power and formally arrested on the same charge. His wife, Zhang Hangli, appealed to the authorities in July 2011 to bail Zhu because he had been ill for a long time, but her application was denied and the lawsuit against Zhu continued. On October 25, 2011, the Shangcheng District People's Court notified Zhu's attorney that it had approved a motion to quash the charges against Zhu, but he remained detained. According to the attorney, the procuratorate cited " changes in the actual evidence " to dismiss the charges.

Although Zhu suffers from a variety of illnesses, some of which were caused by torture or exacerbated by conditions in the prison, the authorities ignored or denied the family's requests for medical treatment. His wife faced reprisals for demanding his release and the police threatened not to talk about her husband's health. Zhu was released in March 2018 after serving his full sentence.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} China arrests dissident in crackdown, human rights group says CNN , April 14, 2011. Retrieved March 20, 2018
2. ↑ ^{a b c} David Eimer: China arrests dissident as crackdown continues The Telegraph, April 11, 2015. Retrieved March 20, 2018.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Individuals Affected by the Crackdown Following Call for "Jasmine Revolution" ( Memento of the original from April 17, 2011 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Chinese Human Rights Defenders. Retrieved March 20, 2018. 
4. ↑ C. Custer: Perspective… ( Memento of the original from September 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The China Geeks, accessed May 26, 2018. 
5. ↑ ^{a b} Zhu Yufu 朱 虞 夫. In: Chinese Human Rights Defenders. August 1, 2011, accessed June 17, 2019 .