Wuxi rights defender Zhu Zhengming detained after the end of residential surveillance, then released on bail pending trial

(Report by the Information Center for Human Rights Defenders) On November 9, 2026, this site learned that Wuxi rights defender Zhu Zhengming was detained after his residential surveillance ended, then released on bail pending trial.

On April 28, 2026, Zhu Zhengming, a rights defender from Liangxi District, Wuxi, was placed under investigation by the Liangxi Branch of the Wuxi Public Security Bureau on suspicion of disrupting the work order of state organs, and was immediately subjected to the compulsory measure of residential surveillance. He was released from residential surveillance on October 27, 2026.

On October 28, 2026, Zhu Zhengming, a Wuxi rights defender, was detained for 10 days by the Liangxi Branch of the Wuxi Public Security Bureau on the grounds that he had obstructed the performance of official duties. On the day of his release, November 7, the Yinglongqiao Police Station of the Liangxi Branch summoned Zhu Zhengming directly from the Wuxi Detention Center to the case-handling center, and then subjected him to the compulsory measure of release on bail pending trial on suspicion of disrupting the work order of state organs.

According to Zhu Zhengming, the 10-day detention was retaliation through an abuse of power. The offense of obstructing the performance of official duties requires that the law enforcement action be lawful, but the case officers’ search of him at the case-handling center was an act of abuse of power beyond their authority. Dedicated staff at the case-handling center should have conducted the search in accordance with the law. Because Zhu Zhengming refused to let the case officers exceed their authority and perform the statutory duties of case-handling center staff by searching him, he was found to have obstructed the performance of official duties. This was an erroneous finding of fact and a deliberate abusive punishment, he said, adding that he would seek administrative reconsideration and file a lawsuit against the penalty decision.

Zhu Zhengming also said: “The Wuxi Public Security Bureau is now seeing one round of directors after another leave their posts or be transferred. After Zhao Zhixin was arrested, Xie Xiaomin muddled along for a while, then Liu Biquan muddled along for a while; both left without any clear explanation. Zhang Zhen was here for several years and has now been removed from his post and placed under investigation. Tan Yongsheng had been here for just over a year before being transferred for no reason. Now Xie Jibu has arrived. Who knows how long he will last? Corruption and organized crime problems in Wuxi’s public security agencies have persisted for a long time and have already grown to an extreme. Once the police are corrupt, the entire judicial chain is rotten from the top down. The Wuxi Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party has for years used the police’s criminal abuse of power to rob and plunder, and to fabricate achievements, leading to widespread public resentment. The police have become the perpetrators who suppress rights defenders. I have done nothing to disrupt the work order of state organs, nor have I caused any disruption. Under the law, there are simply no grounds for opening a criminal case, but they keep opening cases again and again, alternating between residential surveillance and release on bail pending trial. Are these still the people’s police? They are more corrupt than organized crime.”

It is also understood that the Wuxi authorities of the Chinese Communist Party have for years been adept at using the police as thugs through abuses of power to crack down on rights defenders. They do not resolve problems lawfully, but instead resort to any means to deal with the people who raise them. The police, an institution meant to maintain social stability and protect the lives and property of the people, have now become thugs and accomplices who abuse their power to deprive citizens of their personal freedom and rob and plunder the people’s property. They have become an effective criminal gang for Wuxi Chinese Communist Party officials to fabricate achievements. Looking at the human rights violations that have repeatedly occurred in Wuxi under the Chinese Communist Party over the years, their root cause lies in the police’s criminal abuse of power and violence. The recently and repeatedly exposed use of criminal measures to maintain stability, another criminal method, has pushed the police, the people’s police, all the way from being messengers of justice to the very pinnacle of evil. Using criminal procedures against rights defenders who have committed no crime in order to maintain stability is an act of bending the law for personal gain in knowing violation of the law. Its nature and methods are extremely criminal. Without a doubt, Wuxi’s police have now become a thoroughly criminal organization, while the Wuxi Municipal Committee and Municipal Government of the Chinese Communist Party are its gang leaders. This group is the target of the central government’s recent campaign to crack down on organized crime, and is also the defining feature of the rot and degeneration of grassroots Party committees and governments.