Zheng Enchong

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

In 2001, his lawyer permission was withdrawn. In 2003 he was convicted of " treason " to a prison term of three years, after he had sent unpublished information on workers' protests to the American human rights organization Human Rights in China. Even during his detention, he was awarded contrary to diplomatic pressure of the Human Rights Award of the German Association of Judges, 2005.

This pressure described by the chairman of the German Association of Judges, Attorney Christopher Frank, in his welcome speech at the award ceremony of the 10th Human Rights Award of the German Association of Judges as follows: " At the award ceremony in 2005 at the Chinese lawyer Zheng Enchong, the Embassy of the People 's Republic of China with the goal of intervening to prevent the award ceremony as this -. course - was unsuccessful, the Chinese government bodies handed over to the Foreign Office notes of protest on the Internet was to be read, whether the human Rights Award of the German Association of Judges, an invention of a " very small non-governmental organization ," referring to the people's Republic. China reports. Zheng Enchong is more exposed to reprisals. however, the continued interest abroad in his fate protects it too. "

In 2006 he was released from prison. He is under house arrest and regularly intimidated and tortured by the police.