Dear Madam, dear Sir,
January 31 is the deadline for deposing the candidatures for the Nobel Peace Prize 1997. At the moment already 537 MPs and 228 University Professors, 2 members of Government and 2 Nobel Peace laureates are promoting the candidature of Wei Jingsheng. But far more are needed.
We would be very pleased if you could add your name to this list.
Thanking you in advance and wishing you all the best for 1997,
Yours sincerely,
Olivier Dupuis
General Secretary of the Transnational Radical Party
Member of the European Parliament
NB: the MPs, the members of government, the Nobel Peace Price Laureates and the University professors of Story, Law, Political Sciences and Philosophy are allowed to endorse a candidature for the Nobel Peace Price.
DEMOCRACY FOR CHINA, THE NOBEL FOR WEI
Leader of the "Wall for Democracy" movement between 1978 and 1979.
Arrested on March 29, 1979 for "spreading secrets of State", Wei was sentenced to 15 years in prison for "counter-revolutionary crimes".
In 1992, from his prison he wrote to Deng Xiaoping asking him to start negotiations with the Dalai Lama.
Released in 1993, Wei continued to openly denounce human rights violations in China.
Arrested again on April 1, 1994 he was detained in a secret place for 20 months with neither charges nor trial.
On November 21, 1995, Chinese authorities sentenced him to a new 15-year term.
In October 1996, he received the Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought of the European Parliament.
Supporting Wei means supporting democracy in China and Tibet, and strenghtening the struggle for human right as well.
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Transnational Radical Party
c/o European Parliament
REM. 5.08
Rue Belliard 97-113
1047 Brussels
Belgium
Tel. +32-2-230.41.21
Fax. +32-2-230.36.70 - 284.91.98 - 284.91.97
E-mail: pr.bruxelles@agora.stm.it
