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魏京生基金会新闻与文章发布号：A396-W210
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Date: August 1, 2008
发布日：2008年8月1日
Topic:
Tutu and Havel Urge Athletes to Speak up at Games (Reuters)
标题：图图和哈维尔鼓励运动员们在奥运会时发出声音(路透社)
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Tutu
and Havel urge athletes to speak up at Games
PRAGUE
(Reuters) - Czech ex-president Vaclav Havel and Nobel Peace Prize winner
Desmond Tutu called on Olympic athletes on Thursday to speak up on human rights
in China during the Beijing Olympics next month.
Havel,
a human rights campaigner jailed by Communist rulers before their government
fell in 1989, and the South African Archbishop Tutu said in an open letter the
International Olympic Committee (IOC) should let athletes know about the
suppression of liberties in China.
"It
is necessary for all Olympians to be able to learn about the real situation in
China and to point out human rights violations freely whenever and wherever, in
line with their conscience," the letter said.
"We
call on the International Olympic Committee to make that possible."
Beijing
has drawn criticism from international rights groups for acts such as the
arrest of a prominent dissident and the censorship of some websites, and
scrutiny of its foreign policy and rights records is mounting ahead of the
August 8-24 Games.
The
IOC has worked hard to keep Games-linked events and ceremonies as politics-free
as possible.
But
athletes should speak out and the IOC should allow them to, said the letter,
also signed by Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng and European Parliament
Vice-President Edward McMillan-Scott.
"To
speak of the conditions of human rights ... cannot be in violation of the
Olympic Charter," the letter said.
"To
speak of human rights is not politics; only authoritarian and totalitarian regimes
try to make it so. To speak of human rights is a duty."
Havel
irked the Chinese government on several occasions during his 1989-2003 tenure
as president, mainly through his personal friendship with the exiled Tibetan
leader, the Dalai Lama.
(Reporting
by Jan Lopatka)
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Wei
Jingsheng Foundation News and Article Release Issue: A396-W210
魏京生基金会新闻与文章发布号：A396-W210
Release
Date: August 1, 2008
发布日：2008年8月1日
Topic:
Tutu and Havel Urge Athletes to Speak up at Games (Reuters)
标题：图图和哈维尔鼓励运动员们在奥运会时发出声音(路透社)
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图图和哈维尔鼓励运动员们在奥运会时发出声音(路透社)
布拉格7月31日讯：捷克前总统哈维尔和诺贝尔和平奖获得者图图主教星期四呼吁奥林匹克运动员在下个月的北京奥运会上为人权说话。
曾被1989年以前执政的捷克共产党政权所关押的人权斗士哈维尔和南非图图大主教在他们的公开信中说：国际奥委会应该让运动员们知道中国政府对自由的压制。公开信中说："所有的奥运会运动员都应能知道中国的真相，并能够以他们的良心来谴责中国政府践踏人权。这个行动应不受限制、且随时随地可以进行。"公开信呼吁"呼吁国际奥委会保障这个权力。"
在北京8月8日到24日举行奥运会之前，中国政府关押了一名重要的持不同政见者，检查并关闭一些网站。为此，北京政府已经受到国际人权组织的批评，它的外交政策及人权纪录也被仔细地检查。
国际奥委会一直在努力让奥运会成为一个单纯的体育聚会，一个非政治的盛会。但公开信说，运动员们应该可以表达他们的观点，国际奥委会应该允许他们自由表达。中国持不同政见者魏京生和欧洲联盟副主席艾德华麦克米兰士考特都签署了这封公开信。
公开信中还说："讨论人权情况一点也不违反奥运宗旨。""谈人权不是政治，只有集权独裁政府才会这么认为。为人权说话是我们的职责。"
哈维尔在1989年至2003年任捷克总统期间，多次使中国政府恼火，其中一个主要原因是他和西藏流亡政府达赖喇嘛的私人友情。
（Jan Lopatka报道。魏京生基金会译文并首发。请注明出处：www.WeiJingSheng.org）
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