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中国民主运动海外联席会议新闻与文章发布号：A1023-O291
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Date: July 4, 2017
发布日：2017年7月4日
Topic:
Wei Jingsheng Went to Germany, to Speak Out for Liu Xiaobo and Chinese Human Rights
During the G20 Summit (VOA report)
标题：魏京生赴德，G20期间为刘晓波和中国人权发声（美国之音）
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Wei
Jingsheng Went to Germany, to Speak Out for Liu Xiaobo and Chinese Human Rights
During the G20 Summit
--
Xiao Yu, Voice of America
July
4, 2017 07:18
Washington
--
Xi
Jinping, the Chinese president who just visited Hong Kong in an attitude of
"an emperor is ruling the world," had just attended the 20th
anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong's sovereignty and gave a speech of
harsh words. He will visit Russia
and will travel from there to Germany to attend the G20 in Hamburg on Friday
(July 7) for the two-day long
summit.
But
Xi Jinping's trip to Europe will continue to be covered in the shadows of the
protests by overseas activists.
An
ocean away, Wei Jingsheng, the well-known Chinese dissident residing in the USA
arrived in Germany ahead of Xi Jinping.
As the chairman of the Overseas Chinese Democracy Coalition, Wei
Jingsheng will work with a number of European organizations and individuals
that promote the Chinese democratic movement, and to prepare for the visit of
Xi Jinping.
"It
is a traditional activity for the pro-democracy organizations," Wei
Jingsheng told VOA as he was preparing to leave for Germany on Monday (July
3). He said that since 1999,
whenever Chinese leaders visited , the overseas pro-democracy activists would
be organized, "protest the dictator, and ask to release the political
prisoners. This time Liu Xiaobo
will be the focus of the release request, since he has been very ill."
Talking
about protesting in 1999 during Jiang Zemin's visit to six nations in Europe,
Asia and Africa, Wei Jingsheng is still in high spirits: "We have been
following him from England to France, finally to Lyon. The protest in Lyon was the most
exciting. When the French police
blocked the roads, we leaped over the walls, like the guerrillas, while the
local council members and parliamentary members went with us. There were also our people in the
square. Just as they were about to
hold the ceremony, we used megaphones to call out in Chinese and French. The police were very nervous and sirens
went on. When the siren stopped,
we continued our shouting, and their welcoming ceremony was not
completed".
At
that time, many French media reported this action with the subject line of
"Wei Jingsheng Calls Out to Jiang Zemin." Wei Jingsheng said: "Even now, people in Lyon people
still remember this, saying that when our French President welcomed the
dictator, the Chinese people protested." After that incident, the local parliament passed a
resolution naming the traboule (secret passage way) of human rights for Wei
Jingsheng.
However,
Wei Jingsheng, who went through the "Democratic Wall" era and
witnessed more than 30 years of wind and rain of the Chinese democratic
movement, said that despite that the overseas democracy activists have been
working hard, political environment in China has deteriorated.
"Over
the past more than one decade, the Western government has continued to make
concessions to China, while China's strength continues to grow, so now the
human rights situation in China is even worse than a decade ago during the
Jiang Zemin era. Recently, the
Chinese Communist Party has been really suppressing the freedom of speech,
especially media on the Internet, and so on," he said.
Wei
Jingsheng said that the influence of the democratic organizations is far less
than the Western governments, so these years they have been applying the
pressure on the Western governments.
Besides protesting to the G20 Summit in Hamburg, on their visit to
Germany this time they also plan to hold a press conference, and invited German
lawmakers to participate in the hope that they can indirectly apply pressure on
Xi Jinping regarding the human rights issues.
"Now
that there is already the suggestion that Angela Merkel may talk with Xi
Jinping about human rights issues," Wei Jingsheng said.
The
overseas democratic organizations that will participate in the G20 summit
protest include the Chinese Democratic Front, the Forum that Globally Supports
Democratization in China and Asia, the Independent Chinese PEN, the Inner
Mongolia People's Party, World Uyghur Congress and other organizations.
Dolkun
Isa, the secretary-general of World Uyghur Congress, headquartered in Munich,
Germany, told the Voice of America that he expected at least 40 or 50 Uyghur
people living in Germany go to Hamburg to protest.
"Since
Xi Jinping came to the power, the human rights situation in the East Turkestan
is getting worse, not only for the Uyghurs, Tibetans, but also the Han
people," Dolkun Isa said.
"We protest against the authoritarian policy of Xi Jinping. We call to let Liu Xiaobo to go abroad
for medical treatment, and we ask for the release of all political prisoners,
such as Ilham Tohti".
The
20 countries of the G20 international economic cooperation forum hold two
summits annually, each of which attracted protesters who are concerned about
various issues around the world.
This year's demonstrators are expected to reach 100,000 to 150,000
people.
Link
of the original report:
https://www.voachinese.com/a/chinese-rights-20170703/3926860.html
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of this report in audio:
http://www.weijingsheng.org/interviews/interviews2017/WeiJSwentGermany170703VOAreport.mp3
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Overseas
Chinese Democracy Coalition News and Article Release Issue Number: A1023-O291
中国民主运动海外联席会议新闻与文章发布号：A1023-O291
Release
Date: July 4, 2017
发布日：2017年7月4日
Topic:
Wei Jingsheng Went to Germany, to Speak Out for Liu Xiaobo and Chinese Human
Rights During the G20 Summit (VOA report)
标题：魏京生赴德，G20期间为刘晓波和中国人权发声（美国之音）
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魏京生赴德，G20期间为刘晓波和中国人权发声
2017年7月4日
07:18
-- 美国之音
萧雨
华盛顿 -
刚刚以"君临天下"之姿访问香港，出席纪念香港主权移交20周年并发表措辞严厉讲话的中国国家主席习近平又马不停蹄地访问俄罗斯，并将从那里前往德国，出席星期五（7月7日）在汉堡召开的两天二十国集团（G20）峰会。
不过习近平的这次欧洲之行将一如既往地被海外民运人士的抗议活动蒙上阴影。
远隔重洋之外，旅居美国的中国知名持不同政见者魏京生将先他一步抵达德国。作为中国民主运动海外联席会议主席的魏京生将和欧洲多个推动中国民主运动的团体及个人一道，为抗议习近平到访做准备。
"对于民运组织来说，这是一个传统的活动。"正准备从华盛顿启程前往德国的魏京生星期一（7月3日）对美国之音说，从1999年开始，每当有中国领导人出访，海外的民运人士都会组织起来，"抗议独裁者，要求释放政治犯。这一次刘晓波是重点要求释放的。他已经病得很重了。"
谈起1999年抗议江泽民出访欧亚非六国，魏京生依然兴致昂扬："我们从英国一直跟到法国， 一直跟到里昂。在里昂的抗议是最精彩的。当时法国警察把道路都封锁了，我们翻墙跃起进去，跟游击队似的，电视台、当地议员陪着我们一块。前面广场上也有我们的人，他们刚要举行仪式，我们就拿大喇嘛用中文和法语喊话。警察很紧张，警笛都响起来了。警笛一停，我们接着喊，他们的欢迎仪式后来都没搞成。"
当时，不少法国媒体都以"魏京生向江泽民喊话"为题报道了这次行动。魏京生说："里昂的老百姓现在还记得这件事，说我们法国总统欢迎独裁者，中国人在这抗议。"那次事件后，议会通过一个决议，把那条街改叫魏京生街。
不过，走过"民主墙"时代，见证了中国民主运动三十多年风雨的魏京生说，尽管海外民运人士一直在努力，中国的政治环境越发恶化。
"十几年来西方政府不断地对中国让步，中国的实力不断地增长，所以现在国内的人权状况甚至比十几年前江泽民时代还要差。最近中共在言论方面的打压非常严重，特别是对自媒体，等等，"他说。
魏京生说，民运组织的影响力远不及西方政府，所以这些年来他们也一直向西方政府施压。这次到访德国除了会在G20会场门口抗议外，也会召开记者会，邀请德国议员参加，希望他们能在人权问题上间接向习近平施压。
"现在已经有这种说法，默克尔可能会跟习近平谈到人权问题，"魏京生说。
参加这次G20峰会抗议活动的海外民运组织包括民主中国阵线、全球支持中国和亚洲民主化论坛、独立中文笔会、内蒙古人民党、世界维吾尔代表大会等组织。
总部设在德国慕尼黑的世维会的秘书长多里坤告诉美国之音，预计至少四五十名旅居德国的维吾尔人将前往汉堡抗议。
"东突厥斯坦的人权状况越来越差，不仅是维族人，藏人、还有汉人老百姓的人权状况在习近平上台后越来越差，"
多里坤说，"我们抗议习近平的专制政策，我们呼吁让刘晓波到外国就医，我们要求释放伊力哈木等所有政治犯。"
国际经济合作论坛二十国集团每年举行两次峰会，每次峰会都会吸引世界各地关注各种议题的抗议者到场示威。今年的示威者预计将达10万到15万人。
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