美國國會及行政當局中國委員會（U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China）於當地時間昨日（24日）在華盛頓舉行題為「中國的長臂：天安門事件至今討論鎮壓輿論的國際影響（The Long Arm of China: Global Efforts to Silence Critics From Tiananmen to Today）」的公聽會，銅鑼灣書店事件的重要人物之一、巨流傳媒股東桂民海的女兒Angela Gui亦以證人身份出席。
The daughter of Gui Minhai, one of the five Hong Kong booksellers detained on the mainland, has appealed to the US for help.
Speaking in Washington before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, Angela Gui said she wanted the US to secure his release.
She told the commission that her father, a naturalised Swede, had been detained for eight months without trial. Angela Gui said he was also being denied consular access and legal representation.
"It has not been clear what my dad is officially in Chinese custody for", she said. "I don't know what the official reason is, however it seems to me that it's quite clear that he's there because of his work, and I suppose that's why all of his co-workers are there as well, or have been there".
Angela Gui said the others who went missing have "nominally been released", but said Lee Bo – the person who went missing from Hong Kong – has been made to return more than once to the mainland.
She appealed for the US and other governments "to keep asking questions" of Beijing about her father's detention.
Gui Minhai is one of the five men linked to the bookstore in Causeway Bay which sold material critical of Beijing leaders. He disappeared in Thailand last October and later appeared on mainland state television in January and claimed he had returned to the mainland to confess his involvement in a fatal hit and run accident in Ningbo in 2003. He also said he had been detained for illegal book trading.
Angela Gui, who was born in Sweden and now studies at the University of Warwick in England, said the confession was clearly staged. Swedish authorities have been allowed to visit him just once, in late February, she said.
"Twenty-seven years later the Chinese government is increasingly brazen in its repression", said Senator Marco Rubio, "no longer limiting its reach to China's territorial boundaries, but instead seeking to stifle discussion of its deplorable human rights record both at home and abroad".
在線雷達
發表於 2016-5-25 11:45:04
廣播
置頂
超級提昇
強效提昇
推舊帖
收嗲鳥
油顏色
