Wei
Jingsheng Foundation News and Article Release Issue: A1062-W699
魏京生基金会新闻与文章发布号：A1062-W699
Release
Date: November 18, 2017
发布日：2017年11月18日
Topic:
Prayers for Dr. Wang Bingzhang in Prison and His New Book Publishing Ceremony
Held in Front of the Newly Opened Bible Museum in Washington DC
标题：王炳章狱中祈祷与新书发布仪式在华盛顿新开放的圣经博物馆前举行
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Prayers
for Dr. Wang Bingzhang in Prison and His New Book Publishing Ceremony Held in
Front of the Newly Opened Bible Museum in Washington DC
On
Friday, November 17, 2017, the Bible Museum was officially opened in Washington
DC, the capital of the United States.
Meantime, Prayers for Dr. WANG Bingzhang now in prison, and his new book
launching ceremony were also held in front of the Bible Museum. Dr. Wang Bingzhang was the earliest
leader of overseas Chinese democratic movement. He was arrested 15 years ago and sentenced to life
imprisonment by the Communist China and is still locked in the Shaoguan Jail in
Guangdong Province.
This
solidarity campaign was sponsored by the Wei Jingsheng Foundation, the Chinese
Democratic Party, Free China Association, and the New School for
Democracy. It was organized by the
former economics professor of the Beijing University, Mr. XIA Yeliang.
In
the cold wind of the early morning, Ms. HUANG Ciping, Executive Director of the
Wei Jingsheng Foundation, announced the start of the ceremony. Wang Bingzhang family representative
and his elder sister, Ms. Wang Jinhuan from Canada, gave an introduction speech
about him and the book. Then a
letter from Wang Bingzhang in prison was read to the participants. Ms. WU Qian, a Christian from
California, led everyone in prayer for Wang Bingzhang.
Afterwards,
speeches were made by:
Mr.
WEI Jingsheng, Chairman of the Overseas Chinese Democracy Coalition;
Mr.
YAN Jiaqi, the first director of the Institute of Political Science of the
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the first chairman of the "Chinese
Democratic Front" founded in Paris in 1989;
Dr.
WANG Dan, student leader of the 1989 democracy movement in China;
Prof.
XIA Yeliang, former professor of economics at Peking University.
Then
Huang Ciping read a letter from Omar Alghabra, Canadian Parliamentary Secretary
to the Minster Freeland of the Foreign Affairs to Wang Bingzhang's family;
Mr.
HU Ping's written speech was delivered;
Ms.
ZHANG Jing read out the speech of Dr. ZHONG Jinjiang, current Chairman of the
Democratic Alliance;
Mr.
CHEN Weiming, a sculptor, gave a passionate speech on behalf of people from New
Zealand;
Mr.
HAN Wu from New York spoke;
Ms.
JIN Xiuhong from Seattle spoke;
Dr.
WANG Juntao, Chairman of National Committee of the Democratic Party of China,
made a final speech and conclusion.
About
ten media representatives were on the site for interviews and reports. These included:
Mirror
live TV:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AScWHSPR1Qw
Radio
Free Asia, Mandarin service:
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/renquanfazhi/nu-11172017105243.html
Radio
Free Asia, Cantonese service:
http://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/us-wang-11172017141126.html?encoding=simplified
Boxun
News (with related news and Mr. Yan Jiaqi's related article):
http://boxun.com/news/gb/pubvp/2017/11/201711181203.shtml
and
also journalists from Voice of America, World Journal, Epoch Times (English),
NTDTV, etc.
For
more information about Wang Bingzhang and this event, please visit
Dr.
WANG Dan's related tweets at:
https://twitter.com/wangdan1989/status/931701545619591169
Dr.
WANG Bingzhang's "For the Spring of My Motherland -- Declaration to
Abandon Medical Practice for the Democracy Movement in China":
http://www.weijingsheng.org/report/report2017/report2017-11/WangBZgraduation8211statement.htm
Dr.
QIAN Yuejun's "WANG Bingzhang, the First Person of the overseas Chinese
democracy movement":
http://www.weijingsheng.org/report/report2017/report2017-11/QianYJ1307onWangBZ.htm
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中文版
Wei
Jingsheng Foundation News and Article Release Issue: A1062-W699
魏京生基金会新闻与文章发布号：A1062-W699
Release
Date: November 18, 2017
发布日：2017年11月18日
Topic:
Prayers for Dr. Wang Bingzhang in Prison and His New Book Publishing Ceremony
Held in Front of the Newly Opened Bible Museum in Washington DC
标题：王炳章狱中祈祷与新书发布仪式在华盛顿新开放的圣经博物馆前举行
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王炳章狱中祈祷与新书发布仪式在华盛顿新开放的圣经博物馆前举行
2017年11月17
日(周五)，圣经博物馆在美国首都华盛顿正式开放。与此同时，王炳章狱中祈祷与新书发布仪式也在圣经博物馆前举行。王炳章博士是最早的中国海外民运领袖。他于15年前被诱捕并被中共判处无期徒刑，至今还被关押在广东韶关狱中。
该声援活动由魏京生基金会、中国民主党、华夏自由联盟、及华人民主书院等组织举办。原北京大学经济学教授夏业良先生操办。
当天上午，寒风之中，魏京生基金会执行主任黄慈萍女士宣布仪式开始。王炳章家属代表，来自加拿大的，王炳章的姐姐王金环女士介绍了王炳章的近况及新书。之后宣读了王炳章来自狱中的相关家书。来自加州的基督徒吴倩女士带领大家为王炳章祈祷。
之后讲话的有：
中国民主运动海外联席会议主席魏京生先生；
中国社会科学院政治学研究所首任所长、及1989年在巴黎成立的"民主中国阵线"首任主席严家祺先生；
八九学运领袖王丹博士；
原北京大学的夏业良教授。
之后，
黄慈萍宣读了加拿大国会议员秘书Omar Alghabra代表外交部长给王炳章家人的信；
胡平先生发表了书面发言；
张菁女士宣读现任民联主席钟锦江的书面发言；
雕塑家陈维明先生代表新西兰民众讲话；
来自纽约的韩武先生讲话；
来自西雅图的金秀红女士讲话；
中国民主党全委会主席王军涛博士做了最后的演讲与结语。
近十个媒体到现场进行了采访与报道。其中包括：
明镜电视直播：
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AScWHSPR1Qw
自由亚洲电台普通话：
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/renquanfazhi/nu-11172017105243.html
自由亚洲电台粤语：
http://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/us-wang-11172017141126.html?encoding=simplified
博讯（新闻及严家祺先生的相关文章）：
http://boxun.com/news/gb/pubvp/2017/11/201711181203.shtml
以及美国之音，世界日报，（英文）大纪元时报，新唐人电视，等也到现场。
有关王炳章及这次活动的更多内容，请访问
王丹博士的相关推特：
https://twitter.com/wangdan1989/status/931701545619591169
为了祖国的春天--王炳章弃医从运宣言：
http://www.weijingsheng.org/report/report2017/report2017-11/WangBZgraduation8211statement.htm
钱跃君博士：海外民运第一人--王炳章
http://www.weijingsheng.org/report/report2017/report2017-11/QianYJ1307onWangBZ.htm
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