Stand Up for International Principles and Call on China to End Its Human Rights Violations


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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/

 

China: International Law Requires the Immediate Release of Bao Zhuoxuan | Letter
October 21, 2015
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Wednesday, October 21, 2015

http://www.lrwc.org/china-international-law-requires-the-immediate-release-of-bao-zhuoxuan-letter/

Xi Jinping
General Secretary, Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
The State Council General Office
2 Fuyoujie
Xichengqu
Beijingshi 100017
People’s Republic of China

Guo Shengkun
Minister of Public Security
No.14, Donchang’anjie,
Dongchengqu, Beijing 100741
People’s Republic of China
Email:  gabzfwz@mps.gov.cn

Attention CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping and Minister of Public Security Guo Shengkun

Re: International law requires the immediate release of Bao Zhuoxuan

We write on behalf of Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada (LRWC), a committee of Canadian lawyers who promote human rights and the rule of law internationally. LRWC also campaigns for lawyers and other human rights defenders in danger because of their advocacy.
LRWC demands the immediate release of Bao Zhuoxuan, the return of his passport and removal of all impediments to his traveling to San Francisco California.

Illegal and Arbitrary Arrest, Detention and Treatment of Bao Zhuoxuan

In an illegal bid clearly intended to pressure and punish Bao Zhuoxuan’s parents, Chinese authorities arrested Bao Zhuoxuan, the 16-year-old son of human rights lawyers Wang Yu and Bao Longjun on 9 October 2015. The boy is reported to be under house arrest at the home of his grandparents in Ulanhot: his presence there and the conditions of his detention have not been confirmed by anyone independent of the Government of the People’s Republic of China. Bao Zhuoxuan was arrested by uniformed Chinese police in Mong La, Myanmar while he was enroute to the United States to stay with a family friend, Liang Bo, during his parents’ illegal detention. Liang Bo had been planning to host Mr. Bao Zhuoxuan in the San Francisco area in the absence of his parents.  Wang Yu and Bao Longjun were arrested 9 July 2015 and their whereabouts are unknown.[1] State authorities report that they are being held “under residential surveillance at a designated place.” A recent video of Wang Yu making a forced statement confirms that she is still alive, but her whereabouts, and the conditions under which she and her husband are currently detained, are unknown. Wang Yu and Bao Longjun have been detained for over three months without legal authorization, without access to legal representation and without judicial oversight. Their arrest and detention and the arrest and detention of their son are in gross violation of both Chinese domestic law and China’s international law obligations as a member of the United Nations and as a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council. LRWC considers the three members of this family to be victims of enforced disappearance.

Journalist Philip Wen was en route to the home of Bao Zhuoxuan’s grandparents when his team was intercepted by four police officers dressed in plain clothes. At the local police station, while asking questions about their credentials, “the officers largely refused to answer questions about Zhuoxuan’s welfare – and when they did, they provided conflicting accounts”, reports Wen. One said “Zhuoxuan had a cold and was running a high fever; another said he was in school”. Three policemen allegedly said the teenager had been “tricked” into crossing the Myanmar border, and “regretted” doing so. After some time, the police were able to determine that the reporters were in fact in Ulanhot legally and had not contravened any regulations. But in China foreign journalists require the permission of an interviewee before conducting interviews. Police in China of course routinely declare that prospective interviewees have declined to grant an interview, without the proposed interviewee ever appearing in person. The police said both the boy and his grandmother had declined to be interviewed, and escorted the journalists to the airport for their return flights to Beijing.

Bao Zhuoxuan’s case has received international attention; a report by the United States Congressional-Executive Commission on China recommended that lawmakers and administration officials raise it with the Chinese government. The U.S. State Department said it was concerned over reports that Bao Zhuoxuan, the underage son of detained rights lawyers Wang Yu and Bao Longjun, had been put under house arrest in Inner Mongolia. Spokesman John Kirby said in a statement “We urge China to uphold its international human rights commitments and protect the health and safety of this minor child”. “We are also concerned about an apparent systematic campaign of China to persecute relatives of Chinese citizens who peacefully question the official policy and work to protect the rights of others.” “We call on China to remove restrictions on freedom of movement for Bao Zhuoxuan, and again urge China to release Wang Yu and (her husband) Bao Longyun unconditionally”.


Violation of International Obligations by China

Actions that constitute grave violations of China’s international law obligations include the:
Unlawful and arbitrary arrest and detention of Bao Zhuoxuan;
Unjustified prevention of Bao Zhuoxuan from leaving China;
Denial of timely and confidential access to a legal representative of choice;
Denial of judicial review of the legality of the arrest, detention and treatment of Bao Zhuoxuan by a competent, impartial and independent tribunal;

Use by Chinese authorities of harm or threats of harm to Bao Zhuoxuan to coerce confessions from or force compliance by Wang Yu and Bao Longjun;
Use by Chinese authorities of harm or threats of harm to Wang Yu and Bao Longjun to coerce a confession from or force compliance by Bao Zhuoxuan.

These actions by officials acting at the behest of the Government of the People’s Republic of China are grave violations of China’s international law obligations to ensure the protected rights of Bao Zhuoxuan and to prevent and punish violations of those rights. The internationally protected rights of Bao Zhuoxuan which Chinese authorities have violated include his rights to: liberty; freedom from arbitrary arrest and detention; timely and confidential access to legal representation; judicial review of the legality of his arrest, detention and treatment by a competent, impartial and independent tribunal; equality and non-discrimination; freedom from torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment; and the right to be treated as a child.

In addition, the arbitrary and unlawful arrest and detention of Bao Zhuoxuan is discriminatory, having been carried out solely because of his status as the son of Wang Yu and Bao Longjun, two human rights lawyers whom China wants to silence. The denial of judicial oversight and access to legal representation constitutes a contravention of the non-derogable prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment or treatment that is part of international customary law and a provision of all the above-noted treaties signed, acceded to or ratified by China. The European Court of Human Rights (El-Masri v. The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Application no. 39630/09) unanimously held, inter alia, that incommunicado confinement in a hotel for 23 days outside any judicial framework was inhuman and degrading treatment prohibited by the Convention against Torture.

China has accepted and is bound by legal obligations to protect the rights of Bao Zhuoxuan and to effectively prevent and punish violations arising from the: Charter of the United Nations (19 October 1945), Universal Declaration of Human Rights (voted in favour 10 December 1948); Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (4 October 1988); Convention on the Rights of the Child (2 March 1992); and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (signed 5 October 1998). As a state party to the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (acceded to 3 September 1997) China has additionally agreed not to “invoke the provisions of its internal law as justification for its failure to perform a treaty.” (Article 27)

In 1945 China accepted the obligation set out in Article 55 of the Charter of the United Nations to promote “universal respect for, and observance of, human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion.”[2]
These obligations are repeated and have been accepted by China, in all the above-mentioned human rights treaties. As a current member of the UN Human Rights Council China must, in accordance with Resolution A/RES/60/251 of April 2006, “uphold the highest standards in the promotion and protection of human rights, shall fully cooperate with the Council and be reviewed under the universal periodic review mechanism during their term of membership.”

LRWC demands the immediate release of Bao Zhuoxuan, the return of his passport and removal of all impediments preventing him from traveling to San Francisco, California in accordance with China’s international law obligations.
 
Sincerely,
 
Gail Davidson                                                 Clive Ansley
Executive Director, LRWC                             Barrister and Solicitor
China Monitor, LRWC

Copied to:
His Excellency Ambassador Wu Hailong
Permanent Mission of the People’s Republic of China to the United Nations in Geneva
11, chemin de Surville 1213 Petit-Lancy, Geneva, Switzerland
Email: chinamission_gva@mfa.gov.cn

Mr. Wang Junfeng
All China Lawyers Association
5/F., Qinglan Plaza
No. 24, Dongsishitiao,
Dongchengqu, Beijing 100007, People’s Republic of China

Ms. Mónica Pinto
Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
United Nations Office at Geneva
8-14 Avenue de la Paix 1211, Geneva 10, Switzerland
E-mail: SRindependenceJL@ohchr.org

Juan Mendez, Special Rapporteur on Torture
c/o Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
United Nations Office at Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland
E-mail: urgent-action@ohchr.org

Ambassador Guy Saint-Jacques
Canadian Embassy
19 Dongzhimenwai Dajie
Chao Yang District
Beijing 100600 PRC
Email: beijing-pa@international.gc.ca

Ambassador Elissa Goldberg
Permanent Canadian Mission to Geneva
5 Avenue de l’Ariana 1202, Geneva, Switzerland
E-mail: genev-gr@international.gc.ca

[1] For more information see, Mass arrest, detention and disappearance of lawyers and other rights advocates in China, LRWC, 16 September, 2015. Online at http://www.lrwc.org/china-mass-arrest-detention-and-disappearance-of-lawyers-and-other-rights-advocates-in-china-report/
[2] Ibid, art 55.

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2015年10月25日星期日

http://08charterbbs.blogspot.de/2015/10/blog-post_108.html?spref=tw

艾未未称乐高拒绝为其“政治作品”供货

艾未未

中国的异见艺术家艾未未说，在澳大利亚的展览开始前，乐高玩具公司告诉他“不同意用乐高积木做政治作品”。

艾未未周五在视觉社交媒体Instagram上发帖说，乐高公司拒绝了他9月份的批量积木订单。

本周早些时候，中国国家主席习近平访问英国期间，英国的默林娱乐公司和中国方面达成协议，准备在上海开办一个乐高乐园。

艾未未订购批量的乐高积木本来准备制作一件艺术品今年晚些时候在澳大利亚的维多利亚国家艺术馆展出。

去年，艾未未曾用乐高积木在美国旧金山制作了一件作品展出，由乐高玩具积木拼成176幅来自世界各地的政治犯与政治流亡者的肖像，包括前南非领导人纳尔逊·曼德拉、美国的揭秘者爱德华·斯诺登和包括诺贝尔和平奖获得者刘晓波在内的中国异见人士。

这已经不是乐高公司首次遇到这种政治争议。今年早些时候，乐高公司拒绝美国著名女记者韦恩斯托克用乐高积木搭一个有政治意味的美国最高法院女性大法官系列的想法。
乐高公司并未就艾未未所言回复西方记者的提问。

总部在丹麦的乐高公司9月份曾表示，亚洲是其业务增长最快的地方。乐高还在浙江嘉兴投入上亿欧元兴建一个积木厂，准备明年开业。

文章来源：BBC　编译：立行/责编：友义

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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.

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为了几百亿订单竟至于此 — 旧金山民运人权人士抗议英国政府逮捕邵江
2015-10-24 



在英国领事馆外抗议英国政府抓捕邵江的旧金山五位中国民运人权人士（CK摄）

21日，流亡英国的89民运学生领袖邵江，因向访问英国的中国国家主席习近平表达抗议而被英国警察逮捕，警察还查抄了邵江的家，拿走了他的手机和电脑。周五，五位中国民运和人权人士前往英国驻旧金山领事馆表达抗议，指为了几百亿的订单，英国政府丧失他们的傲慢与应有的尊严和民主国家的人权价值观。

星期五上午10点，五位中国民运和人权人士来到旧金山市中心一幢大厦内，大厦的八楼便是英国领事馆。五人手执“英国可耻”、“英国停止向中共磕头”的标语，对英国警察抓捕邵江表示强烈抗议。

组织这次抗议行动的89民运学生领袖周锋锁说：“习近平出国撒钱输出人权迫害，英国就执行了，这是非常令人愤怒的事情。我看到邵江被警察恶劣的对待，而且到家里抄家。我眼泪都掉下来了。这大概是在海外第一次民运人士因为抗议中国的独裁者被抄家。英国警察究竟想干什么？是因为习近平花了几百亿就为他服务吗？作为八九一代，作为中国的人权活动人士，我们对于英国政府的这种行为表示强烈的谴责。”

在89六四屠杀中受伤致残的前北京学生方政坐着轮椅前来抗议，他说：“我在网上看到我们八九一代的好同学邵江，他在英国为了向习近平表达抗议，遭到英国警察不公正的对待，我们很心痛也很愤怒。我们今天到英国领事馆表达对事件的严重关注。这次，所谓英国的傲慢、英国的绅士风度，在习近平的订单的收买下都丧失掉了，丧失了英国应有的尊严，丧失了对西方的人权价值的捍卫。”

孙凯也是中国的八九一代。他说：“中共以前是靠枪杆子、笔杆子打天下，现在靠金钱，在国际上花钱撑门面。这次英国政府与中共的合作让人意想不到，对邵江的抓捕和抄家、没收电脑和手机的行为更是让我们不能理解。这种做法和中国公安的行为几乎一模一样，所以让人怀疑中共也参与了对邵江的这种行为。”

参加抗议活动的还有何娟女士，她是辛清贤的妻子。辛清贤和另一位中国人权人士唐志顺，本月初带着被捕的维权律师包龙军、王宇夫妇16岁的儿子包蒙蒙逃到缅甸，被越境而来的中国国安抓捕。何娟说，邵江被抄家的情形好熟悉：“我就是因为我老公被央视污蔑为裹挟少年包蒙蒙，我们家也被抄了。以前我以为这只是中国的特色，现英国也有了抄家。我觉得这是习近平主席去访问对他们的影响，是世界上两个有影响力的国家携起手来对平民人权的践踏。”

青年胡金炜来自中国温州，他曾只身前去河南探望被捕的郑州十君子。他对中共践踏人权的行径极为愤恨，没有想到英国政府也做出践踏人权的事情。他说：“看来习近平的价值观已经输出到西方去了，英国为了几百亿的订单就做出这么下作的动作，非常无耻。希望其他西方国家不要效仿英国，不然普世价值就完了。但是我认为这是一个政府行为。英国人民不会赞同英国政府这种短视的做法。”

五位抗议者要求向英国领事馆递交抗议信和与领事馆官员对话，都遭到拒绝。被舆论批评为向中共磕头的英国政府，其驻旧金山领事馆此时却表现出他们对中国抗议人士的傲慢和无礼。

 

特约记者：CK/责编：马平

彭丽媛访英“出洋相 ” 中国网络全面封锁消息
2015-10-23



2015年10月21日，彭丽媛出现在伦敦市长晚宴上时突然出现“妆容事故”，被拍到额头、鼻子及唇边出现明显的一块块白色粉印。（AFP PHOTO）

被中国大陆媒体称赞为“时尚指标”的第一夫人彭丽媛在随中国国家主席习近平访英期间出现“化妆事故”，其“白粉脸”照片在网络上疯传。海外多个媒体均刊登了彭丽媛的白脸照，但相关照片和消息在大陆的微博和微信及社交网站上则被全面删除，有用户因转发照片遭封号。

习近平出任中国大陆最高领导人后，第一夫人彭丽媛随夫出访了许多国家，屡屡成为镁光灯焦点，被视为时尚指标。本月21日，彭丽媛出现在伦敦市长晚宴上时突然出现“妆容事故”，被拍到额头、鼻子及唇边出现明显的一块块白色粉印，令其长期备受赞赏的优雅形象大打折扣，引发舆论哗然。

有专业化妆师推测，这可能是因为彭丽媛涂的碎粉中含有矽质或反光物料，正常光线下可掩盖细纹，但当用得过量，加上脸上有油，化学物质就会氧化，在闪光灯下就会出现类似的“白粉脸”。

该照片迅速被海外多家媒体刊登，被戏称为“化妆失败”、“丢脸”、“出洋相”，港台媒体也对此大肆报道。

此事瞬间在网上引起热议，但相关图文和评论被当局迅速删除，新浪微博网民“看我眼神你再说话”更透露，“化妆品事故的微博都被删了，发微博的博主帐号也被注销了。”而大陆媒体目前为止也没有相关报导。

有网民在推特上表示，担心彭丽媛化妆师的下场。

对此，网络活跃人士周周煮粥接受本台采访时称，事件本身只是花边新闻，但中国政府过激的反应却导致事件越炒越热。

周周煮粥：“要封杀所有一切对这政权哪怕有一点点冲突的东西，本身我觉得这不是什么事情，但被他们这样一删就变得好像是反而把这个事情加重了。这个粉对于文艺工作者来说，化妆是家常便饭，第二她年纪也在那里，不能像年轻的女子那样天然。国外的媒体我觉得他们调侃一下也没有多大的影响，但国内这样一删除，大家转发的兴致就更高了，因为凡是他们反对的东西，大家都特别的热衷，变成越盖反而就越丑了。”

此次事件已并非首次有关彭丽媛的微博被“和谐”。2013年中国网络上出现了一张彭丽媛在1989年“六四”事件后慰问戒严部队的照片，但遭中国当局迅速删除。2014年，习近平和彭丽媛出席APEC烟花汇演时，俄罗斯总统普京起身为坐在身边的彭丽媛披衣，这一幕被中国传媒拍下并报道，之后在微博等流传，但相关照片和视频迅速被官方删除殆尽。

此外，当天晚宴上还有另一插曲，习近平在致辞时大谈中英关系会如何深入发展，会场众来宾带上耳机收听同声翻译，但坐在习近平右侧的安德鲁王子与雅罗夫人被拍到没精打彩、用手托头，眼神放空、一度搓揉太阳穴提神等照片，座中还有位中东嘉宾疑似打瞌睡，似乎对习近平演讲内容毫无兴趣。但相关照片在中国大陆的网络上也全部遭到屏蔽。

关注事件的广东作家野渡周五告诉本台：“中国所有的外事活动出现了问题的话，在国内是不能有任何报道的，一般来说也只是停留在民间的议论而已。”

 

（RFA特约记者：忻霖；责编：胡汉强/马平）

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



http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-accused-of-doing-chinas-bidding-after-police-raid-home-of-tiananmen-square-survivor-over-peaceful-a6704911.html#commentsDiv


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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