ICC Note:
A Christian human rights lawyer who has been followed and placed under house arrest for more than a decade says that he had an unusually relaxed Christmas holiday. Zhang Enchong, has been imprisoned, detained, tortured, placed under house arrest, placed under curfew, and followed everywhere he has gone for more than a decade. He had to notify police three days in advance if he wanted to go into the city and his wife was even followed when she went to buy groceries. For the past year, however, restrictions on his movement have slowly loosened. His wife is no longer followed to the grocery store and he no longer has to give several days’ notice for his movements or has a curfew. He was allowed to attend a church even with the officers following him. Some of the officers even told him they had Christian relatives. At the end of the service the officers even insisted on hailing a taxi for him rather than letting him take the subway home.
1/6/2017 China (Epoch Times) – For the past decade, Shanghai-based human rights lawyer Zheng Enchong had to notify the police three days in advance if he wanted to visit his elder brother in the city. If Zheng was permitted to leave home, he would be closely shadowed by a group of security agents.
In the final two months of 2016, however, Zheng suddenly found state surveillance of him and his wife greatly relaxed.
“Nobody follows my wife Jiang Meili when she goes shopping, and the police have also stopped following me,” Zheng said. “The sentries outside my door are more preoccupied with speculating in stocks on their cellphones. Now only three security agents are assigned to tail me, and they no longer have me on curfew.”
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