【大紀元6月3日訊】國際筆會獄中作家委員會強烈抗議最近對《海峽時報》香港記者程翔的被捕和拘押，呼吁立即釋放他。根據最新報道，程翔於2005年四月下旬在中國南方廣州被拘捕。當局指控他是外國間諜，並打算以“盜取核心國家機密” 的罪名起訴他，但迄今為止，還沒有任何的證據證實他們的指控。
據知情者說，程翔正要去取秘密采訪已故趙紫陽的手稿，這位前總理、中共總書記1989年反對政府鎮壓天安門示威者而在政治上的垮台。據報道，采訪錄的出版將極大地損害共產黨在中國的政權。
國際筆會認為拘捕程翔是毫無根據的，侵犯了他的言論自由權。
建議采取行動
請發出如下呼吁：
－－對拘捕程翔表示震驚，並敦促中國當局釋放他；
提到日益關注對異見明顯頑固的不容，以及對作家和記者的騷擾和拘捕的相應形式。
－－敦促中國當局遵守《人權宣言》第十九條所保障的言論自由原則。
呼吁書請寄：
中華人民共和國北京市100032
中華人民共和國國務院轉國家主席胡錦濤閣下
中華人民共和國北京市100032
西皇城根北街9號總理溫家寶閣下
傳真：+86 10 6596 1109
中華人民共和國北京市100020
朝陽區朝陽門南大街10號司法部長張福森閣下
電子信箱： [email protected]
傳真：+86 10 65 292345
如果可能的話，請把呼吁書復印給你所在國的中國外交代表。如果呼吁書晚於2005年6月30日的話，請與獄中作家委員會核實。
若需進一步的信息，請與國際筆會獄中作家委員會聯系： 9/10 Charterhouse Buildings,
London EC1M 7AT, U.K.
電話: +44(0)207 253 3226, 傳真: +44 (0)207 253 5711,
電子信箱 :[email protected]
（獨立中文作家筆會獄中作家委員會譯自英文原稿）
2 June 2005
RAN 21/05
People’s Republic of China: Prominent Journalist Detained
The Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) of International PEN strongly protests the recent arrest and detention of Ching Cheong, the Hong Kong based correspondent for The Straits Times Newspaper, and calls for his immediate release.
According to recent reports, Ching Cheong was detained in late April 2005 in Guangzhou, southern China. The authorities have accused him of being a foreign agent and intend to charge him with “stealing core state secrets”,but have so far failed to furnish any evidence to substantiate their allegation.
Sources familiar with the case claim that Ching Cheong was attempting to get hold of a manuscript of secret interviews with the late Zhao Ziyang, a former Premier and Secretary-General of the Communist Party who opposed the government clampdown on the Tiananmen Square protestors in 1989, which led to his political downfall. It has been reported that the publication of the interviews would be extremely damaging to the Communist regime in China.
International PEN believes the detention of Ching Cheong to be unwarranted, and a violation of his right to free expression.
Recommended Action
Please send appeals:
-Expressing alarm at Ching Cheong’s detention and urging
the Chinese authorities to release him;
-Referring to concerns about the seemingly intractable
intolerance of dissent in China and a corresponding pattern
of harassment and arrests of writers and journalists;
-Urging the Chinese authorities to respect the right to
free expression as guaranteed under Article 19 of the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Appeals to:
His Excellency Hu Jintao
President of the People’s Republic of China
State Council
Beijing 100032
P.R.China.
Salutation: Your Excellency
WEN Jiabao Guojia Zongli
Prime Minister of the People’s Republic of China
The State Council
9 Xihuangcheng Geneijie
Beijingshi 100032,
P.R. China
Fax: +86 10 6596 1109
Salutation: Your Excellency
His Excellency Zhang Fusen
Minister of Justice
10 Chaoyangmen Nandajie
Chaoyang-qu
Beijing-shi 100020
P.R.China
E-mail: [email protected]
Fax: +86 10 65 292345
Salutation: Your Excellency
Please copy appeals to the diplomatic representative for China in your country if possible.
Please check back with WiPC if writing appeals after 30th June 2005.
For further information, please contact the Writers in
Prison Committee of International PEN, 9/10 Charterhouse
Buildings, London EC1M 7AT, United Kingdom. Tel:+44(0) 207
253 3226 Fax: +44 (0) 207 253 5711. [email protected].(http://www.dajiyuan.com)
