Yuan Weijing (袁伟静）, activist, under residential surveillance, house arrest.

Chen Guangcheng's wife, an English teacher, became the victim of retaliation by local authorities after helping her husband to reveal the use of violence in the local birth control campaign and publicly opposing the illegal imprisonment of her husband. Since September 2005, she has been placed under surveillance, beaten, taken in by police for questioning, and eventually put under residential surveillance. In November, after attending Chen's second trial, she was taken away by the police and suffered ill-treatment including insults and threats. She has been officially monitored since then.

On May 25, 2007, the legal order for Ms. Yuan's residential surveillance expired.  Local police issued a document to lift the order.  But Ms. Yuan continues to be subjected to police surveillance and restriction of her movement. 

CHRD has communicated Ms. Yuan's arbitrary detention, together with the case of Chen Guangcheng, her husband, to the UN WGAD and documented this case in its 2006 report on the situation of human rights defenders:

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