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Letter to Mr. Zhang Hong Bao from Zhang Ying
Submitted by: News Agency of China Spring on Jan.28, 2001
Dear Mr. Zhang Hong Bao:
You are spending the first New Year of a new century as well as your second
Spring Festival since your losing freedom in prison of Guam. We, Chinese
Democratic Party members and all democratic compatriots, are missing you very
much. It is hereby to extend our regards and solute! Isn't it sarcastic to US
government who announces itself "respecting human rights" that you are enjoying
"Habeas Corpus" by losing freedom to stay in prison! Isn't it shocking and
disappointing! Your story has been drawing close attention from more and more
friends both of China and foreign countries. We sincerely wish that your could
be granted asylum by US new administration at the soonest to regain your freedom
and to promote progress of Chinese Democracy by better leading 40 million Zhong
Gong members going forward.
Right after some Democratic Party members including Wang Xi Zhe went to visit
you in prison last month, Parties and Groups of Chinese Democracy Movement in
Europe, America, and Asia have established "Alliance of Supporting Rescue of
Zhang Hong Bao". They went canvassing for a whole week in Washington DC, telling
both Senate and House the true story of your case and holding press conference
to promote justice. Some representatives such as Zhou Jian He from Temporary
Committee of Chinese Democratic Party have attended the canvassing at Capital
Hill. I have signed and issued "Statement of Supporting Zhang Hong Bao" which
was jointly signed by more than a hundred democratic personages from European
countries, Hong Kong, Macao and the United Stated. It has been published by
press media of France, Germany, and Holland, etc. Meanwhile, our representative
Zhou Xiao has distributed copies of its English translation to every senator of
the Congress. We regard it as our duty and obligation to make our efforts in
supporting you to get justice and obtain the deserved and fair political
treatment as early as possible.
I have learned that you would appear on the appellant court on Feb. 2nd for the
file of your appeal. Whether it would end up in success or not is not only
related to your own destiny, but also to the prospects of the mass Zhong Gong
members, and the last not the least the trend of Chinese Democracy Movement. For
this reason, I am suggesting the following four points regarding the possible
variances in the trial, direction of your self-defense and lawyer's defense:
I. To counter the criminal charge fabricated by CCP against you, of course
you'll quote the conclusion drawn by the Law Research Board of the Congress's
Library and the Human Rights Bureau of the State Department through appraisal
that the document provided by CCP was fabricated. Besides, you must indicate
that the US ex-administration has made a mistake by taking its major opponent
CCP as "Strategic Partner", and yielded to CCP's political pressure to misuse
lies as evidence. Judicial Department and INS had to carry out order from
summit, causing judicial independence interfered by administration. As a result,
INS court can't open the court session until now, decision announced by Judge to
set you free is hard to enforce, and they are even trying to expel you to some
third country so that CCP could get you extradited there. This is the very
reason that you are still in jail up to now. Since the ex-administration had
played a key role, it is absolutely necessary to criticize its fault.
II. Political Asylum, as the term suggests, is a lawful channel through which
political offenders seek shelter. Therefore, you should emphasize your status as
a political offender. What's more, you are not an ordinary political offender,
but a political leader of an organization possessing a mass members, an
organization that is suffering persecution for political reason in its located
country. Thus, your case must be handled as a special case. That is to say, it
should be decided within 15 days to grant you asylum.
III. It is actually misleading if we talk about emphasizing politics and
judicial procedures separately or even set them against each other. Judicial
procedures must presuppose the emphasis of politics. We held canvassing to the
number one power --- the Congress and made use of the supervising function of
the number four power ---- public media. By doing these, our purpose is exactly
to help correcting the mistake through judicial procedure, trying to get the
fair judgment as soon as possible. The original one group of lawyers is not
powerful enough to defend. Now we are adding the second group. All the lawyers
must defend on court along the same lines that focus on politics, political
offenders and political asylum.
IV. You are the founder and leader of Zhong Gong organization. Meanwhile, you
are an entrepreneur as well as a cultural personage. Your performance in China
has never broken out the existing law of CCP. So what you and your fellow
members suffer from crackdown of CCP is absolutely political persecution. You
have any reason to openly apply for political asylum.
As a member of Chinese Democratic Party, I have always been paying close
attention to you and Zhong Gong. On one hand, it is because I am concerned about
human rights of the 4 million Zhong Gong members; On the other hand, I have
noticed that Zhong Gong had possessed 3 thousand enterprises and about 200
thousand employees. They have united some strong social strength. That strength
is part of the middle class being formed in China that would surely be the
social foundation on which democratic China shall be realized. Let us unite as
one to fight for the ending of CCP's monopoly dictatorship, realizing multiple
partisan political system, constitutional democracy, and rebuilding the
Republic.
Zhang Ying
Executive President
Jan. 26, 2001