Newsgroups: uw.chinese Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watdragon!jshen From: Bo Chi Subject: FCSSC News Release Status: O To: Multiple recipients of list CNC-L Message-ID: <9102181831.AA26712@watdragon.waterloo.edu> Sender: jshen@watdragon Reply-To: "China News (Canada)" Organization: University of Waterloo X-To: cnc-l@uvvm.uvic.ca Distribution: uw Date: Mon, 18 Feb 91 13:22:06 EST Approved: jshen@dragon.uwaterloo.ca Lines: 169 ******************************************************************** # FCSSC News Release No. 02-037 February 13, 1991 # # # # m"m D mm" "m" ""D mmmmmmm m"m m"m # # m" "m mmmDmmmm mmmmm D""" D D """D D D "D" "D" # # m" "m D D D D D""" m"m """D D"""D mDmD DmDm # # n" mmmmmmmmm "m D D D D D"""""""""""""D DmmmD mmmD Dmmm # # D D D D D " """""D" " D D D D D D # # mmmmDmmmm D D D D "D DmmmD"DmmD D D # # D m" m" DmmmD """""""D""""" "" D " D D"" # # mmmmmmDmmmmmm m" mm" " " "mD D m" D # # # #==================================================================# # From: FCSSC Liaison Office Email: Andyshi@Meena.CC.URegina.ca # #******************************************************************# Table of Contents 1. FCSSC Statement 2. Database of "6.4" Prisoners of Conscience Started --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Statement of Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars in Canada on Chinese Government's Unjust Convictions of Chen Ziming and Wang Juntao February 13, 1991 As it has been reported, the Chinese government has recently inhumanly sentenced, through secret trials, veteran democracy advocates and prominent intellectuals Mr. Wang Juntao, who has been suffering from serious hepatitis, and Mr. Chen Ziming, who had been on hungerstrike, each to thirteen years of severe imprisonment, after a series of secret and unjust trials of many participants of the 1989 Chinese Pro-democracy Movement. The Federation of Chinese students and Scholars in Canada, representing its ten thousand members, hereby expresses its greatest indignation and protest to such totally unjustified trials. We strongly condemn the Chinese government's repeated practice of human rights abuse and gross violation of the People's Republic of China Constitution and criminal laws after the brutal June 4 Masscre. We firmly believe that Mr. Wang Juntao, Mr. Chen Ziming and all the other arrested pro-democracy activists are innocent patriots of China. Their words and deeds not only represent the common will of the people of China, but also perfectly conform to the Chinese Constitution. These people should be freed immediately with "no guilty" convictions. And the Chinese people's lawful rights under the Constitution must be restored. The persecution of the participants in the 1989 Pro-democracy Movement by the Beijing regime in the past months has once again revealed explicitly its stubbornness of repeatedly violating basic human rights, breaching the Constitution, defying world opinions, and openly opposing its own people. We appeal to peoples and governments in the world to continue to support the Chinese people's struggle for democracy in many ways and through various measures and help stop the Chinese government's suppression to the Chinese people. We want to reiterate that the Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars in Canada will stand forever by the Chinese people and make unremitting efforts for the early achievement of freedom, democracy and prosperity in China. Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars in Canada ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2. Database of "6.4" Prisoners of Conscience Started As is the concensus of the Executive Committee, FCSSC President Dongqing Wei has recently approved a proposal of establishing a database of information concerning the "6.4" prisoners of conscience made by Liu, Xiufeng of the FCSSC Strategy and Theory Studies Department. Below is the proposal made by Liu, Xiufeng as introduced by Haosheng Zhou, Head of the DSTS. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Department of Strategy & Theory Studies The Federation of Chinese Students & Scholars in Canada A Proposal for Data Base of June-4th Prisoners Time to time, we found lack of sources when the references for June-4th prisoners are in need. Due to lack of manpower, such d-base plan was proposed but never implemented. Now the DSTS finally found someone who is willing to pursue the matter. Liu, Xiufeng, a student at UBC drafted the following proposal. He is very active in HRG with CSSA of UBC. Here I ask an approval from FCSSC for supporting the plan. I initiated this from DSTS but if the Human Rights Group of FCSSC takes over the job, I shall appreciate it. Haosheng Zhou Head of DSTS Cc: Xiufeng Liu ------------------------------------------------------------------- Title: Database of "6.4" Prisoners of Conscience Background: After "6.4" massacre in 1989, thousands of dissidents were arrested and held incommunicado throughout China in connection with their participation in 1889's peaceful pro-democracy movement. Some were reportedly severely beaten or tortured by soldiers or police. Although some of them have been released under the pressure from both domestic and abroad, hundreds of them are still in prison. Especially, Chinese government is taking the advantage of gulf crisis and secretly putting some of them on trial. For example, Juntao Wang and Ziming Chan have been charged with " sedition and plotting to overthrow the government". Similar charges are likely to be brought against other pro-democracy activitists. Their fate is in a great uncertainty. Objectives: This database aims at collecting personal information for those "6.4" dissidents who are still in jail so that their personal information can be used by any person or agency in the efforts of their early release and freedom. Rationale: The people included in this database will be identified based on the statute of Amnesty Inter- national ( article 1 and 2 ) as this: "every person has the right freely to hold and to express his or her convictions and the obligation to extend a like freedom to others", the universal declaraton of human rights opposes "the detention of any prisoners of conscience or any trial procedures relatives to such prisonsers that do not conform to internationally recognized norms". Sources: 1) official reports published and materials provided by some well-known international organizations such as Amnesty International. This source will be taken as "reliable"; 2) internal network such China News Digest. This source will be taken as "to be confirmed"; 3) Chinese newspapers and magnizes such as "Zheng Ming". This source will be taken as "uncertain". Duration: tentatively from Feburary 1 to August 31, 1991. Personnel: Human Right Group, CSSA at UBC. Services: News release once a month. Budget: 1) communication fees (including mails): $75; 2) copy and printing fees: $100; 3) others: $25. total: $200. ------------------------------------------------------------ FCSSC == Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars, Canada == Quan Jia Xue Lian (2,1,2,2) (in Chinese) ------------------------------------------------------------