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A Documentary on How the Outstanding Spiritual Leader
Transformed to a Political Leader
Strongly Protesting Against
Chinese Authorities Suppressing Political Dissidents with Criminal Charges
China Information Center of
Human Rights and Democracy Movement: Strongly Appealing to Chinese Authority for
Stopping its Disgraceful Act of Suppressing Political Dissidents with “Criminal
Charges” (Excerpt)
By Lu Siqing (Hong Kong, August 2)
Political asylum is an essential part of “Universal Declaration of Human Right”,
which has played a very important role in protecting and improving human rights
all over the world. Take the Information Centre as an example. At present the
Centre has played a very important part in promoting and improving human rights
in China. However, without the Hong Kong-British government providing political
asylum to Lu Siqing in 1993, this Centre would not have existed at all.
In regards to the Zhang Hongbao incidents, the Centre makes the following
appeals:
(1) The principle of law is paramount in the US. The US government can not place
itself above the law. … The US judicial system should maintain its independence
and provide political asylum to Zhang Hongbao as soon as possible in accordance
with the law.
(2) Recently there has been a noticeable increase of cases where the Chinese
Authorities sentence political dissidents with so-called “criminal charges”. In
a very short time six dissidents were sentenced to reform through labour under
the charges of “visiting prostitutes”. This shows that it has become a common
tactic for the Chinese Authorities to suppress political dissidents with
“criminal charges”.
The Center strongly appeals to the Chinese Authorities for stopping such a
disgraceful act.