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UK accused of doing China's bidding after police raid home of Tiananmen Square survivor over peaceful protest

Exclusive: Shao Jiang's home was searched after he was arrested outside a London reception for President Xi Jinping

Jamie merrill, David Connett Friday 23 October 2015

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Britain has been accused of doing the bidding of the Chinese regime after UK police raided the family home of a Tiananmen Square survivor – for standing in the road holding up  protest banners in Central London.

Chinese democracy activist and Tiananmen Square survivor Shao Jiang, 47, was arrested in the street outside London’s Mansion House where a reception was being held for visiting Chinese Premier Xi Jinping.

Campaigners say Dr Jiang was “brutally manhandled” by police officers after he attempted to block the motorcade by standing in front of it - in a scene reminiscent of a famous image of a lone protestor standing in front of Chinese tanks used to crush peaceful protests in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989.

He was holding two banners, which read “End autocracy” and “Democracy now”.

After his arrest and overnight detention police searched his home and took away computer equipment.

Last night his wife said the arrest had left the couple “traumatised” and revived the “awful” memories of a raid on his home by Chinese police.



Johanna Zhang, who earlier protested with her husband outside Downing Street, said: “When I was told by the police he had been arrested, it was like I was back in China again. All he was doing in the morning was holding protest signs. They were Amnesty International signs calling for the Chinese to end the crackdown.”

Ms Zhang, 42, insisted the couple did not wish to be “portrayed as victims” but said they were genuinely shocked the “battleground” for human rights had moved to the UK.

“The police here in the UK are now doing the same things as in China,” she added.

Two Tibetan women were also arrested by police after they attempted to wave Tibetan flags at the passing motorcade.

The two women, Sonam Choden, 30, and Jamphel Lhamo, 33, were also dragged from the scene. According to one eyewitness, the police at first assured the two they weren’t being arrested but then an order countermanding that came and both were arrested.


The arrests come amid accusations the British government and Scotland Yard have kowtowed to Chinese demands for firm action over protesters.

Human rights groups have accused the UK government of “trading away” its reputation for supporting human rights.

Tsering Passang, of the Tibetan Community in Britain group, said last night: “As a British Tibetan, I am shocked the Metropolitan Police would arrest peaceful protesters. Tibetans are being silenced both in their homeland and now in the UK. I demand fair treatment for all protesters who are standing up for human rights and democracy.”

Allan Hogarth of Amnesty International UK, said: “This looks like a very heavy handed response to a peaceful demonstration. The police need to urgently explain to Shao Jiang why they entered his property and took his possessions, and when they will return them.”

Other protesters have expressed “shock” at how peaceful demonstrators are being treated by police. After agreeing a position with police for a peaceful demonstration outside Buckingham Palace protesters were surprised to find the position had been moved to a less prominent place where they could be obscured by pro-Chinese supporters. When they tried to move they were “subjected to aggressive bullying by Chinese men carrying huge flags which they used to cover and hide ours.”

In a letter in the Independent, protestor Carole Beavis said she was “shocked” and in one incident told British police present she felt ‘threatened’ by what she took to be Chinese security officials present.

After trying to take pictures she says she was “singled out by three official looking Chinese men, who effectively herded me away from the event, lowered my arm holding the camera. I stood next to a policeman and told him I felt threatened, and they immediately backed off.”

“I should not be silenced in my own country by an orchestrated show of power from the Chinese Embassy. And these are the people who we have invited in to take tea with our Queen.

“We have invited this regime in with open arms and, based on the conduct I have seen this week, I am convinced we will live to regret it,” she said.

All three arrested on Wednesday were released today on police bail.

Dr Jiang, traumatised after witnessing seeing Chinese soldiers shoot fellow unarmed protesters at Tiananmen Square in 1989, was re-arrested in 1995 before fleeing China in 2003. He settled in Sweden before coming to the UK, where he is a PhD researcher and Amnesty International UK activist.

Dr Jiang was among the group who gathered in secret in a Beijing university to draft the demands of the Tiananmen Square protests.

He was arrested three months after the Tiananmen massacre and spent 18 months in a string of overcrowded jails where he was questioned for up to 16 hours a day.

An outspoken critic of China’s human rights record, he had earlier called for British politicians to be “bold in raising concerns over “widespread human-rights abuses” in China. He had praised Jeremy Corbyn for committing to raise the issue with Premier Jinping.

“The real problem is that the Government here is putting trade before human rights. Britain enjoys cheap Chinese goods and Chinese investment but the price is paid by Chinese workers who have no right to strike and no right to organise,” he said.

A Metropolitan Police spokesman confirmed the arrest of three demonstrators. The three were initially arrested to prevent a breach of the peace he said but were later rearrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit threatening behaviour.

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RT ‏@limlouisa  :  Tiananmen exiles inc @ZhouFengSuo & @fangzheng1989 at UK consulate in San Francisco protest UK arrest of @shaojiang

Rumours that Met’s decision to arrest Chinese dissident was influenced by Beijing are too grave to ignore

The only way to get China to behave respectfully is to demonstrate self-respect and confidence in one’s own values

Editorial @IndyVoices 22 hours  ago4 comments

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/editorials/rumours-that-met-s-decision-to-arrest-chinese-dissident-was-influenced-by-beijing-are-too-grave-to-a6706766.html

We do not know why Metropolitan Police officers held the Chinese dissident Shao Jiang overnight for the trivial alleged misdemeanour of “behaviour likely to cause a breach of the peace”, after he held up a hostile banner during President Xi Jinping’s stay in London. We do not know why the police considered it right to raid his home and seize his possessions. Likewise we are in the dark as to why noisy, well-organised pro-Xi demonstrators were given pride of place along the Mall as Mr Xi was due to pass while the small number of protesters were bundled from the spot where police had agreed they could stand to a position where they were obscured by the official contingent. Equally mysterious is the treatment meted out to two Tibetan women who had the temerity to unfurl their flag and who were then dragged from the scene. We do not know the answers to these questions because neither the Met nor City of London police consider it worth their while to answer them.

In the absence of answers, as in some other countries where the custom of authority is to stonewall – China comes to mind – rumours will swirl. No one doubts that the Chinese embassy co-ordinated the cheerleading presence of pro-Xi demonstrators: nothing wrong or illegal about that, and their dragon dancers, identical red T-shirts and sheer numbers were a reminder of the organisational gifts of a nation which has risen in a generation to become the second-biggest economy in the world. But could there be any truth in the rumour that the embassy went further than that, exerting influence, perhaps through a liaison officer, on the behaviour of our own police? That would be a very different matter, and if it is untrue the Met must go out of its way firmly to deny it.

Because these are not trivial concerns, even if the Government insists that discussion of human rights give way to more comfortable matters of trade and investment.

The great complaint about China everywhere it spreads its influence, from the South China Sea to Zambia by way of Sri Lanka, not to mention unhappy Tibet, is that it is a bully. It is the most populous country in the world, and it is now also very rich and ambitious, so it must get its way. Vietnam and the Philippines have been bruised by the Chinese decision to declare practically the whole South China Sea a Chinese lake. Burma’s long-overdue decision to mend fences with the West was prompted by the overweening influence of its giant neighbour. Everywhere China touches down, it does whatever it takes to cultivate the local political elite, then takes maximum advantage. Mr Xi clinks glasses with the Queen at Buckingham Palace; outside, his people consider that this gives them the right to dominate the street.

Historically, the only sort of relationship the Middle Kingdom countenanced with the “barbarians” it came into contact with was receiving tribute from them; the urge to profit has led many nations to accept this bad deal, bargaining away their dignity with a kowtow. But the British Government should know better. Britain knows what it takes to stand up to the Chinese bully. Margaret Thatcher insisted on Hong Kong retaining its political and legal systems for half a century after the return to Chinese control. Chris Patten, as Hong Kong’s last governor, equipped the colony with the rudiments of democracy in the teeth of Beijing’s furious resistance. The only way to get China to behave respectfully is to demonstrate self-respect and confidence in one’s own values. Sadly, this appears a lesson too deep for the likes of Messrs Cameron and Osborne.

Next time, please put the useful info, whithout overciting :)

Again the "WRONG SUSPECTED TERRORIST" under attack?

video  >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhAuzNwQ79E

LOL
Some dude will interrupt traffic in Rotshild controlled territory without necessary authorisation.
Why the Police not shot him as in USA?

Oh. How much chinese people are living in San Francisco and only few are worried about?
Or in San Francisco is too a block of true information about

©2015  "They killed thousands of young, unarmed protesters with tanks."

Why do You open a NEW topic about the same HATE SPEACH on China Mainland?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1205880.80

Because he's working for some $$$ from the State Department.

I'm just relieved Xi Jinping didn't bring up the UK's appalling human rights record. That would have been mighty embarrassing hey ? Or that of the US, our big ally.

I mean, how far back are we gonna go here - are we talking the last couple of years or, for eg., can we go back to the Jallianwala Bagh massacre (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jallianwala_Bagh_massacre) ?

Other example of one eye blindness.

Why You write both nothing about Donbass blood River?

Because China still sucks donkey balls on human rights issues?

What do I win for guessing correctly?  Some time in jail for reprogramming maybe?

Ohhh, holy fuck! Well, no connection with this? ---
©2015  "They killed thousands of young, unarmed protesters with tanks."


In the time, when in ZOG Ukraina are mass graves of killed civilians, You worry about rights of watching porn in Cina Mainland!
You are so perverse.

Why You worry not about rights of lesbians in Saudi Arabia to drive cars on the streets?

Yes - you are right - it is perverse. The hypocrisy makes me sick, and I completely agree with you.

For those that aren't aware (and to my shame I wasn't ) - Donbass (http://www.globalresearch.ca/ukraine-and-the-voices-of-donbass-the-odessa-may-2014-massacre/5447627)

ps. why don't we ever hear talk by western liberals of the 1 billion that have been lifted out of poverty by China. Or don't they count ?

Why you give a shit what I decide to worry about.

Where did I say anything about anyone watching porno?  Get your hand off your own dick so your brain can think.

China still sucks massive donkey cock on human rights.  Your continual attempts at deflection of this plain and simple fact means you are sucking those donkey cocks too.  You are the perverse one, licker of donkey balls...

The only evidence in Your words is that You are addicted at zoofilia porn.

And yet you are the one constantly talking about porn and posting it. 

That is, when you're not licking the nuts of your Chinese heroes, of course, which seems to be your favorite activity.  That you can see to type when their nuts are slapping you so constantly in the face is quite amazing.

I imagine the 'evidence' you seek is in the pile of gooey socks next to your computer.  I'd clean that up if I were you.  Chairman Mao doesn't like his sex boys to keep messy rooms.  Might crush you under a tank if he steps in that shit when he comes for his BJ.

Who post this, You? - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1219192.0

 Nope.  As usual, that post makes no sense.  I am starting to think your masters keep you very high on drugs to keep their sex boy from escaping....or from thinking too much.

They don't like either one of those things, so I think you are probably very high and chained up in a basement wearing an Uncle Sam costume.  I wonder if they make you bark like a good little doggie or if you posting all of this is enough to get their dicks hard so you can all jerk off together while shouting quotes from your little red books.

Ahaha you're so liberal, tolerant and democratic  ;D

Finally we have seen your true face... Just another hypocrite asshole and mentally unsustainable monkey's ass licker. Deal with it.

You see it now, why You need not ignore posts or users in forum, they give so deep satisfaction and so fast :)

yo people, can you just have a discussion but being polite?  shall we insult each other? i dont think so.

Of course you're right. But you've missed the fact that this hypocrite doesn't deserve right to be treated like a human being.

He's one of these nutjobs who have nothing against having a good time with own secretary, but prefer to condemn others for adultery.

If this is true, and it seems to be, it really sucks.

I can see how the Brits would want to keep foreign diplomats safe and unobstructed.  That's just common sense.  If this guy posed no threat, and he wasn't armed by any account, these other actions are more the actions of a police state than one of a government concerned with human rights.  Harassment designed to shut someone up permanently, to terrorize through state action.

Now people are not allowed peaceful protest without state intervention/detention/terrorization.  That's China.  Should not be the UK or any other government that claims to be concerned with human rights.

This never happened, disapear will those that say different.

Wow, "words" cost less than proofs.
Please, put some picture or video.

Saudi Arabia is a paradise on Earth. Why should we think otherwise, if Obama says so? Obama knows better.

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LOL  -- (据自由亚洲)

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https://www.change.org/p/members-of-the-uk-parliament-stand-up-for-international-principles-amp-call-on-china-to-end-its-human-rights-violations


Dear Members of Parliament,

In October 2015, the President of the People’s Republic of China, Xi Jinping, will make an official State Visit to Britain. We, the undersigned, are calling on the UK government to uphold human rights principles and urge China to adhere to international protocols and conventions on human rights and end its gross human rights violations in Tibet, East Turkestan (Xinjiang) and across China.

We ask you, as a member of parliament, to help us hold China to account over its human rights record by:

Raising the issue of China’s human rights record in parliament;
Drafting a Bill which would put human rights at the forefront of UK-China relations;
Raising human rights in any meetings you may have with Chinese officials;
Speaking up publicly to condemn China’s gross human rights violations;
And, adding your support to our call to the UK government by signing our public petition.
After coming to power, Xi Jinping has been responsible for the forced disappearance and arbitrary detention of over 2,000 human right defenders in China, Tibet and East Turkestan. Almost all those jailed have suffered ill-treatment or torture.

This past summer, the Chinese government began a clampdown on human rights lawyers and activists. Over 300 were detained, summoned for interrogation or intimidated. At least 23 lawyers and activists have disappeared into police custody.

In July, revered Tibetan monk and political prisoner Tenzin Delek Rinpoche died in prison. Last year, at least five prisoners of conscience, including Chinese human rights activist Cao Shunli, died in custody or immediately after they were released from prison. No independent investigation has been undertaken into any of these deaths.

In September 2014, Ilham Tohti was sentenced to life in prison for exercising his right to freedom of expression to promote equal rights for the Uyghur people.

The Chinese Communist Party’s war on “extremists”, “separatists” and “terrorists” in Tibet, East Turkestan (Xinjiang) and throughout China has led to thousands of government-sponsored acts of torture and hundreds of extrajudicial killings. For example, in the past two years, Xi’s government has been responsible for the deaths of over 600 Uyhur civilians in East Turkestan. In Tibet, the repression by the authorities has been so severe that over 140 Tibetans have set themselves on fire in protest.

Hong Kong has not escaped from Xi's harsh approach. After Beijing rejected proposals of democratic reform last year, the people of Hong Kong rose up in the largest street protest the city has ever seen. However, Xi’s government was unmoved by such defiance; and instead authorised the suppression of peaceful protests with a mix of police brutality, hired goons and court actions. Those injured by the police have not seen any redress and the political prosecution of protestors is still ongoing.

Xi's government also endorses and helps perpetuate human rights abuses abroad. China has vetoed the UN draft resolutions which would have referred both North Korea and Syria to the International Criminal Court (ICC). The Chinese authorities have forcibly returned thousands of refugees back to North Korea where they have been severely punished and in some cases executed.

We, the undersigned, urge you to take action and support measures which will bring real human rights to the people living under the Chinese Communist Party regime. Please help us defend and protect the principles of human rights, democracy and freedom, including universal suffrage, the rule of law, the right to self-determination, freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, freedom of association including functioning trade unions and political opposition, freedom of religion, and an open and independent media free from government censorship.

Signatories:

Tibetan Uyghur Chinese Solidarity UK (TUCS) tucsolidarity@gmail.com

Chinese Solidarity Campaign

Federation for a Democratic China

Friends of Tiananmen Mothers

Students for a Free Tibet UK

Tibet Society

Tibetan Community in Britain

Tibetan Youth UK

Uighur Association

Uighur Community UK

Padma Dolma, activist

Rahima Mahmut, musician and activist                   

Enver Tohti, activist

Paul Golding, activist

Stephen Ng, activist

Zhang Yidong, historian

Ma Jian, writer

Mo Li, teacher

Fu Zhengming, scholar

Mark Durkan, MP

Shao Jiang, activist

 

Sources:

https://www.amnesty.org.uk/blogs/countdown-china/human-rights-issues-should-be-highlighted-china-tibet-east-turkestan

http://chrlawyers.hk/en/content/1900-2-october-2015-least-288-lawyers-law-firm-staff-human-right-activists-and-family

http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=14394

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/22/world/asia/chinese-police-are-said-to-seize-ashes-of-tibetan-monk-tenzin-delek-rinpoche.html

http://woeser.middle-way.net/2015/08/827.html

http://uhrp.org/press-release/legitimizing-repression-china%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Cwar-terror%E2%80%9D-under-xi-jinping-and-state-policy-east

http://www.securitycouncilreport.org/un-documents/syria/

 

Ohh, this is a heavy proof of what?

Holy shit!
Do they use missiles, martyrs and aircrafts to bomb "terrorists cities" in the mode, how it procede ZOG Ukraine Government in Donbass?

What are "secret prisons of CIA", dude?

https://wikileaks.org/index.en.html

Go to teach human Rights in Saudi Arabia.

your position is what, China is top notch when it comes to human rights?

the rest of your drivel is lame logical fallacy, so it would be nice to know exactly what it is you are saying about China's human rights record.  your opinion on China's performance in this specific area.

not:  not proof!
not:  _______ sucks too!

What is your opinion on China's human rights.  I know this will be difficult to answer, but give it a shot.

This one is a xenofobic one, protest against han comes to Uygur, but himself goes living in Peking.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1219810.0

Check what are Human Rights in China Mainland.
I have many Chinese Mainland friends, and no one from them have explained me someting about bad conditions in China.

 China has  changed very much.Who is new miss of the world.Chinise pretty girl who is falungong practitioner,sh is publicly speaking about,There is no more political prisoners in China,his social network are full of free speach
And only China is actively figthing with corruptions,money laundering,sexual abuse,drug sells

Tell me the rate of Sexually abused Militaries in US and in China Mainland.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1117666.0

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1116405.0

I could post links from human rights watch.   They are very easy to find.

  the question I posed was what is your opinion.  If your friends were posting I'd ask theirs, but they are not, you are.  So what is yours. 

https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/Women_all_over_the_world_Call_on_Liberation_of_a_Girl_imprisoned_for_Meeting_Her_Jailed_Father/?nfZYrjb


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Chinese girl BIAN xiaohui was sentenced to 3.5 years in jail in Hebei provience because she wanted to see her father who was tortured in jail

Oh so heart breaking story. Fucking hell.

Explain me, from where is this picture?

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