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[Goddess of Liberty]

[www.june4.org in Mandarin]

  WWW.JUNE4.ORG

GLOBAL PETITION CAMPAIGN

for the tenth anniversary of the 4 June Tiananmen Square massacre

The petition calls on the Chinese government to:

  • Re-evaluate the official verdict on the 4 June 1989 Tiananmen pro-
    democracy protests and bring to justice those responsible for the human
    rights violations committed;
  • Release all prisoners of conscience including those still in prison for
    their 1989 pro-democracy activities and review the cases of all political
    prisoners;
  • Put an immediate end to harassment, detention and imprisonment of
    Chinese citizens exercising their legitimate rights to freedom of expression,
    freedom of association and freedom of religion;
  • Demonstrate a willingness to respect the rights of all Chinese citizens
    by proceeding quickly to ratification and implementation of the
    International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the
    International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR).
The petition is addressed to:
President Jiang Zemin, People's Republic of China
and copied to: Kofi A. Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations
and Mary Robinson, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

 

 

[Army victims]

[www.june4.org in Mandarin]

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More dissidents arrested

27 May 1999

Two Anshan activists Wang Wen-jiang and Wang Ze-chen were arrested on 25 May by police for planning to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre, according to the Hong Kong-based Information Centre of Human Rights and Democratic Movement in China.
Up to 50 activists have been arrested by the Chinese government recently in order to forestall commemoration activities. Most of them were released subsequently, but 14 of them are still held on remand.
The two Wangs, who are unrelated, had helped organize a petition being planned by more than 100 dissidents to demand the rectification of the official verdict on the 1989 democracy movement. They were arrested by Anshan police.
Meanwhile, dissidents from Xi'an released an open letter via the New York-based Human Rights in China on 26 May calling for the release of all political prisoners and an immediate end to the political persecution of democracy activists.
They also condemned the detention of Jiang Qi-sheng, another dissident who was arrested on 18 May for calling for a candlelit vigil on the tenth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.

 

 

[petition in Mandarin]

 

 

UK contact:

Chinese Solidarity Campaign
c/o First Floor
53 New Oxford Street
London WC1A 1BL

 

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