Zhejiang Democrat Zou Wei, sentenced to 3 years and 6 months, transferred to Hangzhou Nanjiao Prison to serve his sentence

On June 3, 2026， this outlet learned： Zhejiang Democrat Zou Wei, who was sentenced to 3 years and 6 months, was transferred to Hangzhou Nanjiao Prison on May 28, 2026, to serve his sentence。 Prison address： No. 8 Hangxin Road, Xinjie Subdistrict, Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou。 Official contact information—Prison Affairs Public Service Hotline：(0571)-82609865、Office Telephone：((0571)-82609293、Postal Code：311233。

Zou Wei's biography： Born in 1968， a native of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province， an important member of the Zhejiang Committee of the Chinese Democratic Party（commonly known as a Zhejiang Democrat）， a human rights activist， and a political prisoner in China。

Because of his persistent pursuit of the ideals of democracy and freedom， he became an active participant in the democratic movement in the Hangzhou area of Zhejiang at an early stage; and because democratic movement figures in Zhejiang Province took the risk of breaking through the suppression and obstruction by the Chinese Communist government to establish the Zhejiang Committee of the Democratic Party， he has consistently identified himself as a Zhejiang Democrat， and was consequently summoned and subjected to raids by the authorities and police on multiple occasions; on January 12, 2012， because of the Wukan incident in Lufeng City, Guangdong Province（that is, a collective protest in Wukan Village, Lufeng City, during the grassroots election process, in which the villagers' demands escalated from economic demands to political demands; because the incident shocked the world, the Chinese Communist Party believed that the domestic political situation was serious， and at this stage more than a dozen Hangzhou police officers suddenly stormed into his home and conducted a major raid, seizing on the spot his personal computer、address book、USB drives and anything else deemed to be 「valuable」, and taking him away for questioning; on November 20, 2023， he held up a sign and spoke out after dissident Sun Lin in Nanjing, Jiangsu, was allegedly beaten to death by police at home, and was also an active signatory of the open letter published online, On the Unclear Truth Behind Sun Lin's Death—An Open Letter to the Nanjing Municipal Government， whereupon he was immediately seized and criminally detained by police in Hangzhou's Gongshu District， and both his home and his mother's residence were searched; on March 17, 2024， he held up a sign and spoke out on the fourth anniversary of the alleged death of COVID-19 whistleblower Dr. Li Wenliang「killed」， and after being forced by police to take a trip during the convening of the Chinese Communist Party's Two Sessions, he went to Huzhou City on business and posted online information about being taken on a trip and being subjected to stability maintenance measures, whereupon local police again took him away for questioning and reprimanded him; on July 13, 2024， the seventh anniversary of the death of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, he and independent writers Zan Aizong and Zhuang Daohe, Democrat Mao Qingxiang and four others went to the Qiantang River estuary in Haining City, Zhejiang Province, to hold a sea memorial ceremony for Liu Xiaobo, and posted some photos of the event online, whereupon Hangzhou police took six people away in the early hours of the following day; five of them were reprimanded, had statements recorded and were subsequently released one after another, while he and Zhan Aizong were still held and not released because the Third Plenum of the 20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party was about to be held in Beijing, and were forced to take a trip; after returning home， on July 20, he was again formally criminally detained together with Zan Aizong by police in Hangzhou's Gongshu District on suspicion of 「the crime of picking quarrels and provoking trouble」 because of the sea memorial ceremony; on August 29 of the same year， the two were formally arrested by the Gongshu District Procuratorate of Hangzhou on the same charge。 They were subsequently indicted。 The case of Zou Wei and Zan Aizong was heard at 2:30 p.m. on February 13, 2026, in a court in Hangzhou, Zhejiang， with Zou Wei receiving a sentence of 3 years and 6 months and Zan Aizong receiving a sentence of 3 years。 Sentence ends on：January 19, 2028。 He had previously been held at the Gongshu District Detention Center in Hangzhou（also known as the Banshan Detention Center, No. 342-68 Banshan Road, Gongshu District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province，Postal Code：310011）。 On May 28, 2026, he was transferred to Hangzhou Nanjiao Prison to serve his sentence。

This outlet will continue to monitor Zou Wei's situation in prison。