Wei
Jingsheng Foundation News and Article Release Issue: A903-W584
魏京生基金会新闻与文章发布号：A903-W584
Release
Date: December 5, 2015
发布日：2015年12月5日
Topic:
The Wei Jingsheng Foundation Announces the Twelfth Annual "Wei Jingsheng
Chinese Democracy Champion Prize" Award
标题：魏京生基金会第十二届"魏京生中国民主斗士奖"颁发公告
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The
Wei Jingsheng Foundation Announces the Twelfth Annual "Wei Jingsheng
Chinese Democracy Champion Prize" Award
December
5, 2015
Since
2004, the Wei Jingsheng Foundation has awarded the "Wei Jingsheng Chinese
Democracy Champion Prize" every year on December 5th. In the last eleven years the awarding
of this prize has had reverberations around the world. Those people persisting in the fight
for freedom and democracy in China, who are at any moment in danger of
persecution of the dictatorial regime, have thus been encouraged and consoled.
As
can be expected, those who nominate a candidate believe the person they have
nominated has made a great contribution to the cause of Chinese democracy and
freedom. Nominating someone in and
of itself is a way to commend all champions of democracy, including those
unknown, untiring democracy heroes who do not concern themselves with fame and
fortune. We have great respect for
their strength of spirit and the sacrifices they have made. As in the past 11 years, we received
many excellent recommendations from our friends inside China and overseas. All the 6 qualified recommendations are
excellent candidates and it was as ever a challenge to distinguish and select
the best. Just as we did in the
past, this year's award gives greatest consideration to those individuals and
groups who have persisted in their work on the democracy movement inside China,
especially those people who gave up their own freedom and even their lives for
the others.
For
the more than 3 years since Xi Jinping took over the power in China, the
Chinese economy has been brought to its knees, with an increasingly grim
political environment, to the degree that even the communist leaders had to
worry about the legitimacy of the ruling of the one-party dictatorship. Yet, such a difficulty only promoted
the Communist regime to intensify repression against human rights, which has
made the environment for the dissidents became even more sinister. Under these circumstances, those
democracy activists who dare to continue perseverance over many years are even nobler.
The
recipient for this year's "Wei Jingsheng Democracy Champion Prize"
announced by the Foundation's Wei Jingsheng Democracy Champion Prize Judging
Committee is exactly such a person.
For more than one decade, he has not only adhered to the democratic
concept, but also worked to put it into action. He is the outstanding leader and member of an opposition
party, Mr. Chen Shuqing. The
51-year-old Chen Shuqing participated in the democratic movement in 1989 and is
a member of the Zhejiang Preparatory Committee of the China Democracy Party.
Since 1998 Mr. Chen has been repeatedly detained by the Communist regime for
promoting democracy and freedom, include a 4 years sentence imposed in 2007 for
"inciting subversion of state power". After his release, he was continuously monitored by the
Communist authorities, including 24 hour daily surveillance during the "sensitive"
period. In September 2014, Chen
Shuqing was again taken away by the authorities, and later formally arrested in
October 2014. In September 2015,
the Hangzhou Intermediate People's Court of Zhejiang Province put Chen Shuqing
on trial under the "subverting state power" charge. After the trial, according to Fu
Yonggang, defense lawyer of Chen Shuqing, Chen is facing a maximum life
imprisonment according to Chinese criminal law.
For
more about Chen Shuqing, please read the relevant dedication by Ms. Huang
Ciping: "I Was Worried Before Everyone Got Worried, I Will Be Happy When
Everyone Is Happy."
Our
award to Chen Shuqing this year means also to encourage all democracy advocates
who support democracy and freedom and put the ideal into action. Especially, we want to encourage those
persons who believe organizing the opposition party as the most basic condition
to end one-party dictatorship and to construct democratic institutions. Of these people, these who were
nominated multiple times in the past 12 years are these who were the first to
publicly organize an opposition party in 1998, the members of the Zhejiang
Preparatory Committee of the China Democracy Party are the most outstanding and
prominent. Mr. Chen Shuqing has
been an outstanding figure who worked quietly and took responsibility, yet
without asking for the credits he deserves. After several pioneers and leaders of their group passed
away, such as Wang Donghai (the 2012 "Wei Jingsheng Chinese Democracy
Champion Prize" Awardee), it was due to the sacrifice and contribution
from people like Chen Shuqing that the democracy activists in Zhejiang could
carry on to be a powerful force in the freedom and democracy movement in China
for the past more than one decade.
Chen Shuqing stressed that all his expressions and actions to promote
democracy are innocent; that the freedom of thought, speech and association
should all be guaranteed by the Chinese constitution. What he said is also what Mr. Wei Jingsheng and the Wei
Jingsheng Foundation deeply believe.
The
total prize pooled together this year is $5,000. Those who donated money are donating their passion and
belief in Chinese democracy. For
this passion we want to express our deepest gratitude. In addition we also want to express our
appreciation to all those people who recommended nominees for our twelfth
annual "Wei Jingsheng Chinese Democracy Champion Prize". We thank all of you for your support
and encouragement.
Wei
Jingsheng Foundation "Wei Jingsheng Democracy Champion Prize" Judging
Committee:
Huang
Ciping, Chen Xingyu, Liu Jijie, Chen Bangzheng (signed)
For
more details about this year's awards, please refer to our prize dedication:
http://www.weijingsheng.org/report/report2015/report2015-12/WJSF12thPrize151206dedicationA585-W904.htm;
For
further information and detail, visit our website at: www.weijingsheng.org
or
contact us at HCP@weijingsheng.org or HCP0411WJS@aol.com or call
1-202-270-6980.
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Wei
Jingsheng Foundation News and Article Release Issue: A903-W584
魏京生基金会新闻与文章发布号：A903-W584
Release
Date: December 5, 2015
发布日：2015年12月5日
Topic:
The Wei Jingsheng Foundation Announces the Twelfth Annual "Wei Jingsheng
Chinese Democracy Champion Prize" Award
标题：魏京生基金会第十二届"魏京生中国民主斗士奖"颁发公告
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魏京生基金会第十二届"魏京生中国民主斗士奖"颁发公告
自2004年以来，每年12月5日魏京生基金会都会颁发"魏京生中国民主斗士奖"。过去十一次的颁奖在世界范围引起了很大的反响。对于正在中国坚持奋斗、随时都有危险的人们，是很大的鼓励与支持。
毫无疑义，被提名人为中国的民主和自由做出了卓越的贡献。提名本身是对所有民主斗士，包括那些默默无闻、坚持不懈、不计名利的勇士们的牺牲精神的赞扬。和往年一样，今年我们也收到来自国内外朋友们的许多优秀推荐。从六个有效的推荐中选择出最出色的获奖人并非易事。如往年一样，获奖者以在中国国内坚持民主运动的个人和团体，尤其是那些多年来持之以恒，为民主与人权献出自由甚至生命的人们为主。
习近平上台三年多来，中国经济状况一蹶不振，政治环境日益严峻，连中共领导人也不得不担心其执政的合法性。然而中共却变本加厉，加大镇压强度，使得中国人权状况更为恶化，异议人士的环境也变得更为险恶。在这种情况下，那些多年来敢于赴汤蹈火且坚持不懈的民主人士就显得更为可贵。
现在，魏京生基金会的"魏京生中国民主斗士奖"评委会要宣布的，今年"魏京生中国民主斗士奖"的获得者就是这样的一位人士。他是十多年来不仅仅坚持民主理念，更将其付诸行动的优秀领导者，浙江民主党人陈树庆先生。现年51岁的陈树庆，曾参加1989年的民主运动，是中国民主党浙江筹委会成员。从1998年起，推动民主自由的陈树庆多次遭当局拘押，并于2007年以"煽动颠覆国家政权罪"获刑4年。出狱后，他继续受到中共当局监控，乃至"敏感"期间的24小时监视。2014年9月，他又一次被当局带走扣押，于2014年10月被正式批捕。2015年9月，浙江省会杭州市中级法院开庭审理陈树庆被控"颠覆国家政权罪"一案。陈树庆的辩护律师付永刚在庭审结束后表示，根据中国刑法，被告面临最高无期徒刑。
有关更多，请参见黄慈萍女士的相关颁奖辞：《先天下之忧而忧，后天下之乐而乐》。
今年对陈树庆的颁奖，也是对所有支持民主自由理念并付诸行动的民主人士的鼓励。尤其我们要鼓励那些身体力行，坚信组织反对党是结束一党独裁，建设民主体制的最基本条件的反对派人士。这之中，又以筹组反对党的人士，尤其是被提名多次的、于1998年首次公开组党的浙江民主党人士最为优秀和突出。而其中，陈树庆先生则是一位默默工作而又有担当的优秀人物。在浙江民主党的几位先驱与领袖如王东海先生（2012年"魏京生中国民主斗士奖"得奖人）等过世之后，正是由于陈树庆这样的牺牲与贡献，使得浙江民主党人能前赴后继，成为十多年来中国大陆民主运动持之以恒的一支生力军，带领大陆人民争民主、争自由。陈树庆强调，宣扬民主无罪，自己的所有言行均在宪法保障之内，其中包括公民的思想、言论、结社的自由。而这也正是魏京生先生本人及魏京生基金会所深信不疑的。
这次汇集的奖金总额是5000美元。捐款的人们捐出的是他们对中国民主的热情和信念，在此我们表示衷心感谢。此外，我们也向第十二届"魏京生中国民主斗士奖"参与提名的所有朋友表示谢意。感谢您们的支持和鼓励。
魏京生基金会"魏京生中国民主斗士奖"评委会
黄慈萍，陈兴宇，刘继杰，陈邦铮（签署）
2015年12月5日
有关更多，请参看颁奖词：
http://www.weijingsheng.org/report/report2015/report2015-12/WJSF12thPrize151206dedicationA904-W585.htm
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