Subject: CND-EP Posting, December 31, 1990

From: CND-EP <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 91 02:19:58 -0500

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=====================  Europe / Pacific Section (CND-EP)  =====================
			       December 31, 1990

	     H A P P Y	  N E W    Y E A R    T O    A L L    ! ! !

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1. Recent Development of Li Haitao's Case (The Maker of Chai Ling Tape).65

2. Jutice in A Hurry....................................................55

3. Hong Kong: New Year's Eve Candle Light Vigil for Democracy...........30
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1. Recent Development of Li Haitao's Case (The Maker of Chai Ling Tape)
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>From ***@***.***.se		   Wed Dec 19 07:22:42 1990

		       On Li Haitao's Case:

To:  All Overseas Chinese Students and Scholars
From: Cai Chongguo*, Paris

* Cai Chongguo is one of the exiled student leaders now living in Paris and
an editor of the Paris-based magazine DEMOCRATIC CHINA. During last year's
democratic movement, Cai Chongguo was, together with Li Haitao, one of the
key leaders of the student organization in Wuhan. Both Cai Chongguo and Li
Haitao were doctorate candidates in department of philosophy at Wuhan
University).

1. Li Haitao's friend Cai Chongguo (now in Paris) has learned that: after the 
  sentence of Li Haitao to four years prisoning by the Wuhan Intermediate
  Court, Li appealed to (Shang4-shu4) Hubei Superem Court.  During that
  period, we mobilized international media and some foreign people who have
  had friendly contact with Chinese government to investigate on the case,
  and that made the re-trial postponed. But finally, The Court got an
  instruction from a 'standing committee member of the CPC central committee
  with glasses' (probably Qiao Shi), so that the original sentencing (4 years
  of prison) was kept. However, there still is hope that a continuiing protest
  and appeal from outside may make his sentenced term reduced even afterwards.
  On the other hand, the disclosure of the Li Haitao's case has caused a great
  headache to the Chinese government, since it greatly hurt its effort of
  'improving its international imagies'. Many news media like AP, UPI, Reuter
  et al made extensive coverage on the event.

2. Li Haitao and his family members have learned the overseas protest
  activities and are greatly encouraged. It greatly released their feeling of
  isolation and depression, and they would extend their sincere gratitute to
  all of those friends who have showed concerns.
 
3. Cai Chongguo appeals to everybody to write to Guan Guangfu, the local
  party leader of the Hubei province, to make warnings to him, since Guan
  has been especially active in the prosecution move against student leaders
  in Wuhan. Tens of student activists in Wuhan university are still under
  repression due to their involvment in last years event and Chai Lin's tape
  cassette. And the protest move should be pointed directly to Guan
  PERSONALLY, since this is a most effective strategy.

  The address is: China, Hubei Province, Wuhan city, Donghu Lu (East Lake
  Road), CPC Hubei Province committee, Guan Guangfu

4. Everybody is encouraged to send donation to Li Haitao and his family. The
  address is: Li Haitao, Liu Chunni (Li's wife), c/o Department of Phylosophy
  at Wuhan University. It is not important that how much money you donate.
  It is understanded that the money may likely be sent to Li Chunni's hands,
  and even if it is taken by the authority, one day it will be released. And
  even they take supporting mails away, they can not possibly take the money
  away. Every one dollar is of very high symbolic value, the news may
  immediately arouse the attention of the Wuhan university, and further spread
  nationwide.

5. Cai Chongguo promises to forward all your support activities information to  
  Wuhan university and Li Haitao's family members and himself. Feel free to
  contact to Cai Chongguo directly:

Cai Chongguo
apt 66
13 rue des quatre freres peignot
75015 paris, france
 
tel. 45-75-24-28
 
Or you can contact to IFCSS at [email-masked] and ask it to forward any
message to Cai Chongguo.
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2. Jutice in A Hurry
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Provided by CND-Canada Editor Run-Ping Qi <[email-masked]>  Fri, 21 Dec 90

			Justice in A Hurry

           ---  After carefully biding its time, Beijing suddenly steps
	   up the prosecution of Tiananmen Square dissidents.

                        [excerpt from Time Magazine, December 17, 1990]

>From Haosheng Zhou at UBC

     A court officer visited the Beijing home of Chen Ziming's elderly parents
late last month and presented them with an official notice. A branch of the
Beijing procuratorate court, the document said, had approved the formal arrest
of Chen Ziming on charge of "inciting counterrevolutionary propaganda" and
"subversion." A trial could take place as early as this month.

     The official's visit was ominous, since Che, 38, the former head of a
private think tank, had been accused of bing a key organizer of the Tiananmen
Square protests that the government brutally crushed in June 1989. After the
crackdown, Chen went underground with his wife and several friends, including
Wang Juntao, 32, a former editor of the defunct Economic Studies Weekly. Late
last year the pair topped a secret government wanted list of pro-democracy
leaders. Arrested a few months later while trying to escape abroad, Chen and
Wang are detained in Qincheng, a maximum-security prison outside Beijing ...

     Despite official assurances, the chances of the students' getting a fair
trial are considered remote. While the Chinese constitution guarantees a
defendant's right to a public trial and a lawyer, the reality can be quite
different. Often a verdict is reached before a case goes to court, and access
to courtrooms is restricted to those holding government-issued tickets. Hou
Xiaotian, 27, Wang's wife, expresses the hopelessness shared by the detainees
friends and families when she says, "I feel tiny and weak, as insignificant
as a droplet of water in the sea. When I call out on behalf of my husband,
I hear not a sound in response."

     But some voices are being raised. Amnesty International has asked for
permission to send a team of observers to monitor future trials; Beijing has
warned that outside attempts to influence China's judicial system "will get
nowhere." Last week Congressman Robert Torricelli, a New Jersey Democrat and
a member of the House Subcommittee on Asian Affairs, who was visiting Beijing
, took up the issue of the detainees in discussions the Vice Foreign Minister
Liu Huaqiu and other Chinese officials. Torricelli said he urged the
government to grant amnesty to the detainees and explained that assuming
the West no longer cared  about the fate of the dissidents would be "a tragic
mistake."

     After initially evading discussion on the status of the detainees, the
foreign Ministry spokesman last week changed tack and denied that any
prosecution or sentencing of dissidents had taken place. At the same time
he rejected foreign inquiries on the prosecution of state criminals as
meddling in China's internal affairs. He decried speculation that the
Communists are taking advantage of the gulf crises to crackdown on dissidents
as "an act of rumor-mongering and mudslinging with ulterior motives."

     The spokesman neither confirmed nor denied whether some of the key
democracy leaders had been formally charged, or whether they might be brought
to trial at a later date. It is possible that Beijing is still betting on what
dissident Fang Lizhi has called the "Chinese amnesia, "the tendency of the
country's people to forget past repression. That wager has paid off before.
China's leaders seem to be hoping that the rest of the world will be equally
forgetful.
            -Reported by Jaime A. FlorCruz and Mia Turner/Beijing
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3. Hong Kong: New Year's Eve Candle Light Vigil for Democracy
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>From: Hong Kong Alliance <[email-masked]>
Date:	      Fri, 28 Dec 90 06:26:37 PST

                        Hong Kong Alliance
       in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movement of China

To all pro-democracy organisations:

To further press the Chinese Government to release pro-democracy activists,
Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movement of China will
be organising a "New Year's Eve Candle Light Vigil for Democracy" on 31
December, 1990

    1. There will be a candle light vigil outside the New China News Agency
in Hong Kong from 5 pm to midnight on New Year's Eve.

    2. We are appealing to various organisations in Hong Kong to display
banners outside the New China News Agency, and will read a public statement at
mid-night.

    3. The statement will demand the Chinese Government to release all
pro-democracy activists.

Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movement of China hopes
that overseas pro-democracy organisations will take similar actions and make
the same demand outside your local Chinese embassy or consulate.

In our last global simultaneous action to press for the release pro-democracy
activists, we have made significant achievements.  We must press on until all
activists are released

Szeto Wah
Chairman, HKASPDMC
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