Mao Hengfeng, Date of Birth

    

Mao Hengfeng

Chinese activist

Date of Birth: 09-Dec-1961

Profession: human rights activist

Nationality: China

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Mao Hengfeng

  • Mao Hengfeng (simplified Chinese: ???; Traditional Chinese: ???; pinyin: Máo Héngfeng; born 9 December 1961) is a women's rights and human rights activist in the People's Republic of China.
  • She refused to abort her third child after already having twins and was detained in an ankang (psychiatric hospital) and then dismissed from her job.
  • A frequent petitioner, Mao served a year and a half of re-education through labor in 2004-2005 and two and half years in prison for "intentional destruction of property" in 2006-2008.
  • She was released from Shanghai Women's Prison on 29 November 2008.
  • Since then she has served another year in RTL after protesting in support of Liu Xiaobo.
  • She was briefly released, in February 2011, but under house arrest.
  • She was almost immediately taken again, and placed in Shanghai City Prison Hospital, where she was previously tortured and ill-treated.

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