【新唐人2013年06月06日讯】中国上海的维权律师郑恩宠被软禁超过7年，最近突然被批准到香港访问。郑恩宠上个月曾经跟美国驻上海领事馆的一位外交官见面，本台记者因此特别专访了郑恩宠。而据上海警方透露，在专访播出之后，中共外交部和中央相关部门在第一时间，向上海方面索取了有关郑恩宠的材料。与此同时，中央政法委书记孟建柱6月2号前往上海视察。郑恩宠分析，中共当局可能是来了解他的情况，以便在美、中“奥习峰会”上知道如何应对。
5月27号，《新唐人》报导：美国驻上海领事孟儒生紧急联络郑恩宠并成功见面，孟儒生表示，将把郑恩宠的情况写成报告，作为7月美、中人权对话的材料。经过两天，一名上海警官找郑恩宠谈话，抱怨他把事情“闹大了”。
上海律师郑恩宠：“（上海警官说）这回习近平不知道也知道了。这次与美国外交官见面之后，（中共）外交部和中央有关部门在第一时间向上海要索取材料，我们不敢把你的材料往上报。”
而在5月30号美国国务院举行的例行简报会上，有记者提及：上海律师郑恩宠突破软禁与美国外交官会面，是否和美国总统欧巴马与中共国家主席习近平下周会晤有关？国务院发言人莎琪说，她不会下这个结论，也不会评论中方的动机。
郑恩宠分析说，美国外交官和他见面这条新闻报导出去之后，加上有记者在美国国务院简报会上提出这件事，可能引起了习近平高层的重视，因为外交部正在为习近平和欧巴马会谈做准备。他们需要预测美国可能谈论什么问题，他们怎么应对。
6月2号，中央政法委书记孟建柱到上海视察工作。郑恩宠认为，孟建柱视察上海的时间点太过巧合。
郑恩宠：“这个事情，上次你们《希望之声》，《新唐人》这么一弄，他们感到习近平肯定知道这件事情，已经弄大了。现在美国国务院又提出这个问题。所以我分析，孟建柱亲自到上海来把这个问题查查清楚。后面到底隐藏了什么问题？为什么我的问题，居然我2006年出狱到现在软禁了七年，中央好像不完全了解这里面的情况。”
郑恩宠表示，因为他持续揭露“上海帮”的贪腐内幕，让“上海帮”的总头目江泽民寝食不安，誓言要除掉他，上海当局把他当作第一号监控对像。
郑恩宠：“当年搞我的是江泽民的侄子，叫吴志明，现在做上海政协主席，他还没有退位。所以在这样的情况下，我的问题，中央政法委肯定挂号的，但是中央听上海的。你们上海能把问题摆平了，你能放他到香港去，你们能保太平就可以了。那么这一次，他还没有摆平之前，弄得美国外交官、世界上都知道了，那中央政法委他要拍板。他又怕我到外国去以后，把共产党骂一通，他感到承担不了责任。”
郑恩宠还透露，在《新唐人》的新闻播出之后，他收到许多中国律师的手机短信，包括自称“小媳妇”的体制内律师。
上海律师郑恩宠：“他们向我祝贺。感到你郑恩宠为我们中国律师，还不是中国维权律师出了一口气。我们小媳妇没有任何人为我们讲话。他说，你能把我们的问题提到习近平和欧巴马谈话，提到中美人权谈判的课题上，我们感到很鼓舞。”
郑恩宠认为，美国现在相当重视中国维权律师的状况，而中共也把维权律师视为极大的威胁力量，但是郑恩宠相信，只要中国维权律师凝成一股强大的力量，像台湾追求民主的“美丽岛事件”，很快就会到来。
采访编辑/秦雪 后制/王明宇
Zheng Enchong Case In Progress
China’s civil rights lawyer, Zheng Enchong, has been under house arrest for over seven years. Recently, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities suddenly approved Zheng’s academic travel to Hong Kong. In May, NTD reported on Zheng’s urgent meeting with a U.S. diplomat in Shanghai. After NTD broadcast this news, the CCP central authorities asked Shanghai authorities for information on Zheng. On June 2, Meng Jianzhu, the chief of the Political and Legislative Affairs Committee (PLAC), arrived in Shanghai to inspect work. Zheng Enchong speculates that Meng may come to find out about his case, in order to prepare for Xi Jinping’s talk with Barack Obama next week.
On May 27, NTD reported that Russell Menyhart, US diplomat in Shanghai, urgently met with Zheng Enchong. Menyhart said he would write a report on Zheng’s situation, which will be used as information for the US-China human rights dialogue held in July. Two days later, a Shanghai police officer complained about Zheng, and that Zheng “has diffused the situation".
Zheng Enchong: “The police told me that even Xi Jinping knew about this matter. He said, that after your meeting with the US diplomat, the Foreign Affairs Ministry, and the relevant central departments, all asked for the information about you. We dare not report to them about your situation."
On May 30, at the U.S. State Department daily press briefing, a reporter asked if Zheng’s successful meeting with the US diplomat was related to the upcoming Obama-Xi talk. State Department spokesman Saci said that she could not come to this conclusion, nor would she comment on China’s motives.
Zheng Enchong speculates that the news about his meeting with the US diplomat, as well as the US reporter’s question, may have drawn attention from Xi and his men.
The CCP Foreign Affairs Ministry is now preparing for Xi’s talk with Obama. According to Zheng, they are predicting what topics may be raised, and how Xi will respond.
On June 2, Meng Jianzhu, the PLAC Party chief, reportedly arrived in Shanghai to inspected work. Zheng Enchong thinks the timing of Meng’s Shanghai trip was too coincidental.
Zheng Enchong:"After NTD and SOH reported the news, it is believed that Xi Jinping is certainly aware. Now it has been raised at the US State Dept press briefing.
So based on my analysis, Meng Jianzhu has now come to Shanghai to check it out personally. Why did they put me under house arrest for seven years, since I was released from prison in 2006? It seems that the central authorities have known nothing about my case."
Zheng Enchong discloses that he had continued to expose corruption of Jiang Zemin’s Shanghai clique. Jiang thus vowed to remove Zheng, and put him as number one on the list of surveillance targets in Shanghai.
Zheng Enchong:"I was persecuted by Wu Zhiming, Jiang’s nephew. Wu is current chairman of Shanghai Committee for the Political Consultative Conference. The central PLAC definitely knows about my case, but they usually leave it to Shanghai PLAC to handle. That is, they let Shanghai PLAC straighten things out, by allowing me to go to Hong Kong. But before they could handle it, the news about my meeting with the US diplomat has spread widely. The central PLAC will have to make the final decision.
Also they fear that after I go abroad, I will criticize the CCP in public. So Meng feels that he can’t bear the responsibility."
Zheng Enchong adds that after NTD broadcast the news, he received SMS text messages from Chinese lawyers. One of them was a self-proclaimed “doormat".
Zheng Enchong: “They congratulated me. They felt that I had one got one back for China’s civil rights lawyers, as ‘no one has spoken out for us doormat lawyers’. He said they felt encouraged that the issue was raised as a topic for the US-China human rights dialogue."
Zheng Enchong remarks that the U.S. is now paying much attention to the condition of Chinas civil rights lawyers. The CCP also views these lawyers as a great threat.
Lawyer Zheng says that if China’s civil rights lawyers can stick together to be a powerful force, he believes that large pro-democracy demonstrations will soon take place in China, as they did in Taiwan.
