Published by: World Tibet Network News, Friday, October 11, 1996

Ramos-Horta and all the people of East Timor. Immediate return to the campaign for the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize for Wei Jingsheng.

Brussels, Oct. 11th, 1996. The Transnational Radical Party praises the decision of the Nobel Committee for having chosen Carlos Filipe XIMINES BELO, bishop of East Timor, and Jose RAMOS-HORTA as the recipients of the 1996 Nobel Prize for Peace: they are two persons who symbolize peaceful struggle of the inhabitants of East Timor against the ferocious oppression of the Indonesian dictatorship.

At the same time, the announcement of the return, with greater force and determination, to the international campaign, that, together with the Federation for Democracy in China and Human Rights in China, is being conducted for the attribution of the 1997 Nobel peace Prize to WEI Jingsheng, one of the most famous dissidents of the Chinese regime, who was recently condemned to an additional fifteen years of prison after having already spent the years 1979-1993 incarcerated.

To date over 500 Parliamentarians and University Professors who support the candidacy of WEI Jingsheng for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997. The objective is to reach 2,000 signatures by January 31st, 1997.

Transnational Radical Party