Hi Friends,
We have four items for your attention this week.
1. The first item is a petition to the government of Vietnam
to release a political prisoner, Ta Phong Tam.
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| Ta Phong Tam |
The petition site people get carried away with user friendliness and supply a form with my details inserted. Please erase them, insert your own and sign.
2.The next case requires a letter. Here is a
link to my letter that you can use as template.
Information on Israel Chinese Embassy;
Ambassador: Ms. GAO Yanping
Address: 222 Ben Yehuda Street, P.O.B.6067, Tel Aviv 61060, Israel
Tel:
+972-3-5442638 / 5440337
Fax: +972-3-5467251
Office Hours: 09:00-13:00, 13:30-15:30, Sunday-Thursday (except holidays)
Website:
http://il.china-embassy.org/eng/
Here are the details of the case:
URGENT ACTION
FEARS FOR DISAPPEARED CHINESE VOLUNTEER
A volunteer with a Beijing-based NGO,
Song Guangqiang (also known as Song Ze), has been subjected to enforced
disappearance as a result of his human rights activities. He has not been
allowed to see his lawyer or family since 31 May and the authorities have
refused to inform his family of his whereabouts. He is at risk of
torture and ill-treatment.
On 4 May around 2 pm, Song Guangqiang,
a 27 year-old volunteer with a Beijing-based non-governmental organization
(NGO), was taken away by the police near Beijing South Railway Station.
He was interrogated at the Fengtai district and Beijing Public Security
Bureau (PSB) on 4 and 5 May. On 5 May he was informed that he was being
charged according to Article 293 of the Chinese Criminal Code with “picking
quarrels and provoking trouble†and transferred to the Fengtai district
detention centre, Beijing.
Song Guangqiang’s lawyer met with him on
15 and 31 May. He told his lawyer that he had been interrogated and charged
in relation to his involvement in a project helping petitioners (people
seeking redress for perceived injustices). This includes his visits to
“black jails†in Beijing (unofficial detention facilities where many
petitioners are arbitrarily detained because of their petitioning activity)
and his distribution of food and donated clothes to petitioners who are
destitute. On 12 June his lawyer was told that Song Guangqiang had been
taken away by staff from the Beijing PSB several days earlier and placed
under “residential surveillanceâ€. Shortly after, his lawyer was told
by the Beijing PSB that only the “unit in charge†can respond to inquiries
about a particular case, and refused to provide any information. At present,
neither Song Guangqiang’s family nor his lawyer have been informed of
either his whereabouts or well-being.
Please write immediately in Chinese or
your own language:
n Calling
on the authorities to immediately inform Song Guangqiang’s family of his
whereabouts and well-being;
n Calling
on the authorities to release Song Guangqiang immediately and unconditionally
as he has been detained solely for exercising his rights to freedom of
expression;
n Calling
on the authorities to ensure that Song Guangqiang is not tortured or otherwise
ill-treated in detention.
PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 5 OCTOBER 2012
TO:
Director, Beijing Public Security Bureau
FU Zhenghua JuZhang
Beijingshi Gong’anju
9 Dongdajie, Qianmen
Dongchengqu, Beijingshi 100740
People’s Republic of China
Fax: +86 10 65242927
Telephone: +86 10 8522 5050 (Chinese only)
Salutation: Dear Director
Secretary, Political and Legal Committee
of Beijing Municipality
JI Lin Shuji
3 Tai Ji Chang Da Jie
Dongchengqu
Beijingshi 100743
People’s Republic of China
Telephone: +86 10 8580 6131 (Chinese only)
Salutation: Dear Secretary
Minister of Public Security of the People's
Republic of China
MENG Jianzhu Buzhang
Gong’anbu
14 Dongchang’anjie
Dongchengqu
Beijingshi 100741
People's Republic of China
Telephone:
+ 86 10 6512 2831 (Chinese only)
Salutation: Your Excellency
Also send copies to diplomatic representatives
accredited to your country. Please insert local diplomatic addresses below:
Name Address 1 Address 2 Address 3 Fax Fax
number Email Email address Salutation Salutation
Please check with your section office if
sending appeals after the above date.
Additional Information
In China, civil society and in particular
the weiquan (‘rights defence’) movement are growing. However,
human rights defenders who attempt to report on human rights violations,
challenge policies which the authorities find politically sensitive, or
try to organize or rally others to their cause, face serious risk of abuse.
Some human rights defenders are held under
illegal house arrest or in unofficial places of detention also known as
“black jailsâ€; others are subjected to “residential surveillanceâ€
(‘jianshi juzhu’ - known informally in Chinese as ‘ruanjin’
or ‘soft detention’). While the Chinese Criminal Procedure Law lists
“residential surveillance†as one of a number of measures that may be
used by the police against criminal suspects, in practice activists are
rarely shown any official notice explaining the reasons for their detention,
they are seldom detained at home as stipulated in the law, and periods
often exceed the maximum limit of six months as prescribed by law.
Name: Song Guangqiang
Gender m/f: Male
3. AIUSA has an action going on in the hope
of helping the Pussy Riot prisoners. Please act.
This requires no more than filling a form and clicking.
4.Siemens claims to be a responsible corporation. Maybe they are a good corporate citizen at home in Germany, but away from home, as in the USA, they are union busters.
Please tell them to shape up
END OF POST FOR THIS WEEK.
