Zheng Enchong Was Blocked by Police when He Wanted to Blow the Whistle on Han Zheng

• published: 23 Sep 2014
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Follow us on TWITTER: http://twitter.com/cnforbiddennews Like us on FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/chinaforbiddennews Sept. 20—A famous Shanghai lawyer, Zheng Enchong told NTD that he blew the whistle on Han Zheng on Sept. 19 by reporting him to the Discipline Inspection Commission in Shanghai, after a battle of wits. Han Zheng is the current head of the Communist Party China Shanghai Municipal Committee. On his way to the Inspection Commission, two police officers closely monitored Zheng Enchong and the inspection team refused to accept his whistle-blowing materials at first; so how did Zheng Enchong succeed?—Here’s the coverage. Zheng Enchong says that in July, when the inspection team had just arrived in Shanghai, his friend lawyers, democratic parties and federations all rang him, encouraging him to write an appeal letter to the Inspection Commission. His friends said they could help him deliver the letter and gave details that would boost the chances of the team paying attention to his appeal; also suggesting that Zheng personally go to the office to prove the letter’s authenticity. So on Sept. 19, Zheng Enchong visited the inspection office located at 888 Jiangsu Road, Changning, Shanghai. Zheng’s home was being monitored by twelve policemen and was under 24-hour watch, so in order to go out, he said he needed to go to a police station for his parents, to help with formalities to change their registered address. When Zheng got close to the inspection office, he told the two police officers following him that he wanted to hand over one appeal letter to the central inspection team. Lawyer, Zheng Enchong: "The police asked me, who do you want to blow the whistle on?" "I said, 'Han Zheng'; he said, 'Come on, don't tell me that, I'll pretend not to know'—so I told him to ring his boss." "I said, 'from the point of view of protecting yourself, you should consult your boss and find out if I am allowed to visit the inspection team.'" "I prepared myself mentally and continued, 'After notifying your boss at the National Security Office, you'd better stop me and force me into the police car—I'm prepared; the story may make today's breaking news." The National Security Department didn't want such news of officers stopping a Shanghai resident from appealing. Zheng Enchong says, the boss instructed the police to "ignore it, since he’s already arrived there." So Zheng Enchong sued Han Zheng, a Politburo member and the head of the Shanghai Municipal Committee. Since his jail release on June 5, 2003, Zheng Enchong's been under house arrest from Han Zheng for over 8 years. Zheng says when he entered the office to submit the letter, an officer with the role number 018 met with him, who was over 60 years old and experienced in handling petitioners, but he was shocked at seeing the target being Han Zheng. Zheng Enchong: "His eyes faced me ferociously and he said, 'You're suing Han Zheng?—Do you have evidence?’" "I said, 'yes I have', and he told me I had to be responsible for my charge, so I said, 'I am certainly responsible.'" "He continued, 'What sort of evidence do you have?' —so I replied, 'if I had no evidence, I wouldn't come.'" The officer said that he would first review it, then accept the charge. Zheng Enchong: "I said, 'what you need to review? —the official newspapers' first-page headlines and over a hundred pages have all said the inspection teams are here to receive charges and appeals, and will investigate issues related to the main leaders in Shanghai; well Han Zheng is the top man, and what I am doing today is correct." Zheng Enchong says the officer was still looking for an excuse to refuse his appeal. Zheng Enchong: "He was surprised—I said, 'I delivered this appeal via the National People's Congress representatives, who are members of democratic parties and lawyers and they helped me'; he then began to pay attention." "I submitted a large number of whistle-blowing materials on Han Zheng and other main Shanghai officials, directly to the Central Discipline and Inspection Commission." The officer let his two assistants take Zheng Enchong's two-page appeal letter, who then numbered and scanned it. As Zheng Enchong returned home at 10 o'clock that night, a police car arrived, and Shi Jinrong and Zhang Xiaoming from the Zhabei District Public Security Bureau got out to tell him that from now on, he was banned from going out, because he had lied to the monitoring officers today and had visited the inspection team without approval. Zheng Enchong asked, "If I would have told you, would you have let me go?"—to which they said, "certainly not." On Aug. 11, police had raided Zheng Enchong's home after he disclosed in an interview with foreign media a day earlier that he would write an appeal letter to the inspection team. 《神韵》2014世界巡演新亮点 http://www.ShenYunPerformingArts.org/