Charter 08: for human rights in China
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26/01/2009
Whilst law professors sign the charter, the university tells students not to do to what the charter calls for, slamming anyone who says anything positive about it.
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24/01/2009
Released in 2007 after 18 years in prison, prior to the Beijing Olympics he was confined to the hospital, and is still under treatment, although his friends say that he appears to have no need of hospitalization. Human rights groups are asking that he be examined by independent psychiatrists.
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21/01/2009
A program has been announced to make the army more modern and technologically advanced by the middle of the century. The increase in spending is justified by the presence of foreign threats and hostile, secessionist forces, like the Tibetans massacred in March. Warnings to the United States and to Taiwan.
08/01/2009
He is one of the veterans of the pro-democracy movement. The heavy sentence demonstrates that the government intends to suffocate the spread of democratic ideas, following the publication of the Charter 08. Beijing also fears demonstrations in 2009, the 20th anniversary of the massacre in Tiananmen. Wang Rongqing has also written in defense of religious freedom.
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08/01/2009
Police is threatening to charge charter supporters of “plotting to overthrow the regime”. Search engines like google.cn, Yahoo! and Baidu are filtering the document, and yet it is being disseminated anyway. The number of people signing the charter has now reached 7,300.
02/01/2009
Liu could be held for a year and half without charges or trial. More and more people are signing up to Charter 08 to change China into a country that defends human rights.
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17/12/2008
Endorsements are increasing for the proposal for the democratic transformation of the country. Former communist leader Bao Tong has sent an open letter to Beijing, stressing that everything requested in Charter '08 is already provided for in the Chinese constitution, and asking them to explain "why it is illegal."
16/12/2008
Tens of supporters are interrogated, threatened, placed under surveillance or arrested as a result of orders “from higher up”. The document is censored on Internet.
12/12/2008
More signers of the document calling for respect for human rights are in jail, or under house arrest. But President Hu says that China will promote human rights only according to "the basic situation of the country."
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10/12/2008
Among the signatories Liu Xiaobo, an intellectual, was arrested on Monday. Another, Zhang Zuhua, was interrogated for 12 hours and then released. Scientist Jiang Qisheng and lawyer Pu Zhiqiang were also interrogated. Pu is closely monitored by police. Like Czechoslovakia’s ‘Charter 77’, this manifesto calls on the authorities to radically change the country’s oppressive system, and guarantee instead human rights, including freedom of religion.
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