Zheng Enchong
Lawyer, Person
1950 –
Who is Zheng Enchong?
Zheng Enchong is a Shanghai-based Weiquan lawyer. Zheng was sentenced in 2003 to three years in prison for his advocacy on behalf of citizens who had been forcibly evicted from their homes. The charge stemmed from two faxes Zheng was alleged to have sent to the New York-based organisation Human Rights in China concerning workers' protests. Upon his release from prison, he remained under house arrest.
His lawyer Guo Guoting was allegedly forbidden to see him. Guo Guoting now lives in Canada.
Zheng Enchong had advised more than 500 families displaced by Shanghai’s urban redevelopment projects on their rights to fair compensation. In 2005, he received the Human Rights Award of the German Association of Judges.
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