Meng Yaoting
(ZENIT News – Bitter Winter / Beijing, 10.08.2024).- Zhu Bin, a Christian activist and dissident and the co-founder of Beijing Special Children School, was criminally detained by the Haidian Branch of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau on charges of “inciting disturbances” on September 29, 2024. He is currently held in the Haidian District Detention Center in Beijing.
Zhu Bin was born in the county-level city of Fu’an, Fujian Province, on February 24, 1973. His school, established in 2017 and not connected with the government-controlled Three Self Church, has been harassed and raided repeatedly.
Zhu Bin has also been an advocate for social justice and welfare activities. Since the COVID-19 outbreak in late 2019, he has raised funds for patients and disaster victims, contributing significantly to charity work.
A popular poet, Zhu Bin has penned collections like “Breathing of Ants” and “Watching a Tree Grow Up.”
During the 2019 Hong Kong protests, he voiced support through social media, writing the poem “The Light is a Sin” for the arrested students. After the arrest in 2021 of citizen journalist Zhang Zhan, who traveled to Wuhan to investigate and expose the authorities’ mishandling of the COVID emergency, he wrote “Zhang Zhan, Please Live.”
When the scandal of the “Chained Mother of Eight” erupted in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, in 2022, Zhu Bin called for an investigation by collecting signatures and mailing a petition to the National People’s Congress. The scandal involved a man presented as a model CCP activist, who bought from human traffickers a woman who gave him eight children and kept her chained for years.
The petition about the incident made Zhu Bin a nationally known figure, and set in motion the chain of events that have now led to his detention.
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