Wuxi Rights Defender Zhu Zhengming’s Compulsory Measure Changed to Residential Surveillance by Liangxi Public Security Sub-Bureau

(Rights Defense Network Information Center report) On April 30, 2026, this outlet learned that Wuxi rights defender Zhu Zhengming’s compulsory measure had been changed to residential surveillance by the Liangxi Public Security Sub-Bureau.

On April 28, 2026, the Liangxi Branch of the Wuxi Public Security Bureau issued a “Decision on Residential Surveillance” to Zhu Zhengming, on the grounds that, as a criminal suspect in the case of disrupting the working order of state organs, he had violated the regulations he was required to observe while released on bail pending trial, and that residential surveillance at his residence had therefore been decided in accordance with the law.

It is understood that in September 2025, Zhu Zhengming was placed under investigation by the Liangxi Branch of the Wuxi Public Security Bureau on suspicion of disrupting the working order of state organs, and was simultaneously subjected to the compulsory measure of release on bail pending trial. Zhu Zhengming has always maintained that he did not engage in any conduct that disrupted the working order of state organs. Although he has already been administratively detained more than ten times by the Liangxi Public Security Sub-Bureau, these actions were all retaliation and persecution for his lawful rights-defense activities. Moreover, there were no “serious consequences,” and under the law the case should not have been opened as a criminal case.

Zhu Zhengming said: “I was originally a regular employee of the Traffic Management Science Research Institute of the Ministry of Public Security. Because my employer unlawfully dismissed me, I embarked on rights defense. The issues I reported concerned corruption within the Ministry of Public Security, and I was obstructed and suppressed by Wuxi public security. The Liangxi police explicitly designated me in official documents as a ‘key target for maintaining stability.’ This criminal case is evidence of that. Since I have committed no crime under the law, a criminal case should not have been opened. But the judicial scum in Wuxi are using such methods, abusing criminal measures to maintain stability, and depriving me of my personal freedom by imposing criminal compulsory measures on me, using this despicable tactic to prevent me from petitioning and defending my rights. This is the real black and evil force. The development of stability maintenance to this degree of black-and-evil conduct shows that it has reached the end of the road.”

In addition, according to reports from Wuxi petitioners, Du Xiaogang, secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Wuxi Municipal Committee, is now using the police as enforcers to carry out abuses of power, attacks and suppression against petitioners and rights defenders for the sake of political achievements. This has already become Wuxi’s customary practice over the years. For many years, Wuxi public security authorities have opened more than a hundred criminal cases against petitioners who had committed no crimes. Some petitioners have been subject to criminal case filings for years despite there being no criminal facts, and have been repeatedly subjected to changing between release on bail pending trial and residential surveillance for consecutive years. The police, meanwhile, carry out “black-and-evil” stability maintenance through such methods as administratively detaining people for violating supervision and management regulations, or criminally detaining them during major sensitive periods.

According to preliminary statistics, for many years the Chinese Communist Party in Wuxi has continually used the police as enforcers to abuse their power to attack and suppress petitioners in order to achieve political achievements in stability maintenance. From using the police to unlawfully intercept and abduct petitioners and forcibly stop them from petitioning, to unlawfully imposing administrative penalties on petitioners through the police, and then to abusing criminal measures to suppress and persecute them, this string of wrongdoing has fully exposed the Chinese Communist Party in Wuxi’s “distorted view of political achievements” and “fascist tyranny.”

Wuxi petitioners Shen Aizhen, Zhang Heqin, Xia Qinmei, Yin Baimei, Hua Huiqing, Wu Shiming and others have all strongly exposed the cruel persecution of petitioners through the Chinese Communist Party in Wuxi’s black-and-evil stability-maintenance methods, and exposed that Wuxi public security has degenerated into the domestic slaves and enforcers of Wuxi’s black-and-evil public power, leaving petitioners with virtually no space to defend their lawful rights.