Rally at the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco to celebrate International Human Rights Day and celebrate Liu Xiaobo Nobel Peace Prize
- BAFOT
- Dec 10, 2010
- 2 min read
Updated: 2 hours ago
Date:
Friday, December 10, 2010 12:00pm
Location:
Chinese Consulate in San Francisco
Celebrate Liu Xiaobo Nobel Peace Prize, International Human Rights at SF Chinese Consulate
Press Release of 12/3/2010 Photo Opportunity
WHO: Chinese Foundation for Democratic Education, Century San Francisco Bay Area to celebrate the founding of the organizing committee Xinhai,
San Francisco Branch of China Democratic National Committee, San Francisco, the China Democracy Party Joint Headquarters Division, Bay Area Chinese and Tibetan Friendship, Bay Area Friends of Tibet, Activists from Burmese Community
CONTACT:
English: (415) 264‐3264, giovanni@friends-of-tibet.org,
Burmese: (510)220-1323, nyuntthan@gmail.com
WHEN: Friday, December 10, 2010, 1 PM
WHERE: Consulate of the People’s Republic of China Laguna at Geary Blvd., San Francisco, CA (USA)
(San Francisco, CA)
On December 10 the Norwegian Nobel Committee will give out its annual Nobel Peace Prize at a ceremony to Liu Xiaobo who cannot attend it because he is jailed by the Chinese government. However, democracy advocates, members of the Bay Area Chinese and Tibetan Friendship, Fang Zheng and Feng Congde, will travel to Norway to attend December 10 awards ceremony. A coalition of Chinese democracy groups and others will rally outside the Consulate of the People’s Republic of China in San Francisco from 1-3 PM.
“It’s an outrage that the Communist Chinese government is blocking Liu Xiaobo and his wife from receiving the award in-person, in Oslo,” said Baosheng Guo, of the San Francisco Branch of China Democratic National Committee.
The public is invited and participate in speeches, songs and slogans and to join in the expressing indignation at situation of the jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner, Liu Xiaobo as well as call for international human rights.
We demand that the Chinese Communist Party and Chinese Government:
• respect for the human rights as described in the Universal Declaration of the Human Rights of the United Nations
• grant freedom for each individual to express him/herself and to develop his talents and capacities fully and unlimited
• (more) democracy
On this International Human Rights Day we insist on:
• the immediate and unconditional release of the Tibetan film maker Dhondup Wangchen who is sentenced to 6 years in prison by the Chinese government for making “Leaving fear behind”, an exceptional film made by Tibetans in Tibet who took great risk to document the true feelings of Tibetans living under the Chinese occupation; his trial was held in secret and he was denied access to a lawyer of his choosing
• The immediate and unconditional release of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, a Chinese human rights activist who called for democratic reforms and the end of communist one-party rule in China; he was sentenced to 11 years imprisonment; Liu Xiaobo won the Nobel Peace Prize for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China
• The immediate and unconditional release of the Panchen Lama and all political prisoners in Tibet, in China and anywhere else in the world.
• Support human rights in Tibet, China, and Burma and throughout the world.
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