Amnesty International April 1988

Amnesty   International     April   1988

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Amnesty   International

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  CAMPAIGN   FOR   PRISONERS   OF   THE   MONTH  

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  Each   of   the   people   whose   story   is   told   below   is   a   prisoner   of   conscience.   Each   has   been   arrested   because   of   his   or   her   religious   or   political   beliefs,   color,   sex,   ethnic   origin   or   language.   None   has   used   or   advocated   violence.   Their   continuing   detention   is   a   violation   of   the   United   Nations   Universal   Declaration   of   Human   Rights,   International   appeals   can   help   to   secure   the   release   of   these   prisoners   or   to   improve   their   detention   conditions.   In   the   interest   of   the   prisoners,   letters   to   the   authorities   should   be   worded   carefully   and   courteously.   You   should   stress   that   your   concern   for   human   rights   is   not   in   any   way   politically   partisan.   In   no   circumstances   should   communications   be   sent   to   the   prisoner.

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  Liu   Shanqing:   a   35-year-old   electronic   sales   engineer   from   Hong   Kong,   he   is   serving   a   10-year   sentence   for   "counter-revolutionary   offences",   imposed   in   February   1983.

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  Liu   Shanqing   was   arrested   after   leaving   Hong   Kong   on   25   December   1981   for   a   trip   to   Guangzhou   (Canton).   He   was   a   supporter   of   the   "democracy   movement   of   the   late   1970   s,   and   had   planned   to   visit   the   relatives   of   prominent   activist   Wang   Xizhe,   detained   in   Guangzhou   since   April   1981.

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  Liu   Shanqing's   family   received   no   official   confirmation   of   his   detention   until   his   father   went   to   Guangzhou   in   March   1982   to   inquire   about   his   son's   "disappearance”.   He   was   told   by   the   municipal   public   security   bureau   that   Liu   Shanqing   his   son   was   under   arrest,   but   was   not   informed   of   the   charges   against   him   or   his   whereabouts   and   was   denied   permission   to   visit   him.   Only   in   March   1983   did   officials   of   Guangzhou   Intermediate   People's   Court   tell   him   that   Liu   Shanqing   had   already   been   tried   and   sentenced.   The   PRC   authorities   consider   ethnic   Chinese   resident   in   Hong   Kong   to   be   citizens   of   China   and   therefore   subject   to   its   laws.

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  On   10   August   1983,   the   Guangzhou   Intermediate   People's   Court   wrote   to   the   Students'   Union   of   the   Chinese   University   of   Hong   Kong,   which   had   campaigned   for   Liu   Shanqing's   release,   claiming   that   he   had   been   publicly   tried   and   convicted   of   collaboration   with   other   counter-revolutionary   elements   "to   "attack   the   socialist   system   and   the   people's   democratic   dictatorship",   and   of   counter   revolutionary   propaganda   and   agitation   "

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  On   appeal,   the   municipal   Higher   People's   Court   had   upheld   his   sentence   of   10   years   imprisonment   with   three   years'   deprivation   of   political   rights.   However,   in   1987,   court   officials   told   Liu   Shanqing   supporters   that   he   could   apply   for   a   retrial   and   have   his   sentence   reduced   if   he   pleaded   guilty   ",   and   that   representation   by   a   Hong   Kong   lawyer   "would   be   discussed"  

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  Liu   Shanqing   is   imprisoned   in   Meizhou   city   in   Guangdong   province.

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  Reports   in   late   1987   indicated   that   he   had   been   recently   moved   to   solitary   confinement   and   was   undergoing   a   program   of   "re-education   ".

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  Please   send   courteous   letters   appealing   for   his   immediate   and   unconditional   release   to   :His   Excellency   Li   Peng   /Acting   Prime   Minister   /Guowuyuan   /Beijingshi   /People's   Republic   of   China.

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