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Place of Birth: Shanghai, China
About Zheng Enchong
- Zheng Enchong is a Shanghai-based Weiquan (rights defending) 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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