【权利:4401】 《公民��》杨建利在英国议会提藏人自焚和刘晓波问题

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杨建利在英国议会提藏人自焚和刘晓波问题

　　在他十天欧洲之行的首站，公民力量主席杨建利博士英国议会上院会见了阿尔顿上议员。此次会谈的目的是讨论中国的人权问题，包括在西藏数目 不断增加的自焚事件，和对诺贝尔和平奖得主刘晓波的监禁。

英国议会上议 员大卫�阿尔顿和杨建利博士

　　大卫�阿尔顿上议员是国会上议院中间派成员，有着捍卫人权的长期历史。2008年，当英国奥委会强迫英国运动员签署不谈论中国人权问题的 保证时，阿尔顿上议员站出来捍卫运动员的言论自由。他谴责英国奥委会的该项行为嘲弄了自由言论的权利。阿尔顿上议员还是2009年与另外三名 议员一起访问西藏的一名代表。在该次访问中，阿尔顿上议员向中方交涉了在2008年三一四事件后被处以死刑的洛桑坚赞和洛亚的案子。

　　在讨论了西藏的最新局势和刘晓波的问题之后，阿尔顿上议员和杨建利博士同意要为唤起对这些问题的全球性关注而共同努力。阿尔顿上议员承诺 要推动杨建利博士提出的四项行动。这些行动包括：1)要求英国政府在与中国政府双边交往时提出西藏局势和监禁刘晓波问题；2)要求英国政府派 出独立代表团赴藏调查自焚事件；3)要求英国政府与其他西方民主国家一起建立直接处理西藏问题的多边机构；4)要求英国大使馆的外交官拜访刘 晓波的妻子刘霞。尽管并无任何控罪，刘霞却一直被软禁。

　　杨博士也还造访了英国议会下议院，会见了罗伯特�巴克兰议员。巴克兰议员还是保守党人权委员会主席。今年早些时，巴克兰议员会见了马格尼 茨基先生的代表，并力导议会通过了对导致马格尼茨基先生死亡和在俄国监狱中滥权的责任者实施禁制令的法律。中国公民力量在美国也正在推动类似 行动，禁止中国人权侵害个案的责任者入境（这项运动的详情见链接）。杨建利博士与巴克 兰先生讨论的话题包括有，中共十八大之后的政治交接、刘晓波案、藏人自焚和宗教自由等。

　　在伦敦期间，杨博士还将会见其他政府官员，向他们提出对西藏人权状况和刘晓波的被监禁的关注。

2012年12月1日
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Yang Jianli Raises Tibetan Self-Immolation and Liu Xiaobo Issue

with UK Parliament

 

At the start of his 10 day trip to Europe, Dr. Yang Jianli, President of Initiatives for China (Citizen Power for China), met Lord Alton in the Upper House of the UK Parliament. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss human rights issues in China, including the rising number of self-immolations in Tibet and the imprisonment of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo.

 

Parliament Member Lord David Alton is a crossbench member of the Upper House of Parliament. Lord Alton has a long history of defending human rights. In 2008, after the British Olympic Association forced British athletes to sign a contract promising not to speak out about China's human right issues, PM Lord Alton stood up and defended the athletes' freedom of speech. He condemned the move as "making a mockery" of the right to free speech. Lord Alton was also a delegate along with three other Members of Parliament that visited Tibet in 2009. During the visit, Lord Alton raised the cases of Lobsang Gyaltsen and Loyak who were sentenced to death after the March 14 incident in 2008.

 

UK Parliament Member Lord David Alton & Dr. Yang Jianli

After discussing the new situations of Tibet and Liu Xiaobo, MP Lord Alton and Dr. Yang Jianli agreed to fight together to raise awareness of these issues globally. MP Lord Alton promised to work on the four actions Dr. Yang Jianli raised. These actions include: 1) request the British Government to raise the situation in Tibet and the detention of Liu Xiaobo to the Chinese government bilaterally; 2) request that the British Government send an independent delegation to Tibet to investigate the self-immolation cases; 3) request the British Government to work with other western democracies to establish a multi-front organization to directly address the Tibet self-immolation crisis; and 4) request that diplomats from the British Embassy in Beijing visit Liu Xia, the wife of Liu Xiaobo, who is now under house arrest even though she has not been convicted of any crime.

 

Dr. Yang also took a trip to the Lower House of the UK Parliament. He met with MP Robert Buckland. MP Robert Buckland is also the chairman of the Conservative Party Human Rights Commission. Earlier this year, MP Robert Buckland met the representatives of Mr. Magnitsky and helped to have the House pass the legislation on banning those who were responsible for Mr. Magnitsky's death and abuses in the Russian prison. The Initiatives for China is currently campaigning for a similar measure in the United States to impose travel ban against China's individual human rights abusers (more details about IFC campaign please click here). The issues Dr. Yang discussed with Mr. Buckland included the CCP's political shifts after its 18th Congress, Liu Xiaobo's Case, Tibetans self-immolation, and freedom of religion. 

 

While in London, Dr. Yang will also meet with other government officials to raise with them concerns about the human rights situation in Tibetan and Liu Xiaobo's imprisonment.