胡泳 | Open letter to NPC on human rights
我们谨以中国公民身份,郑重公开倡议 : 尽快批准加入《公民权利和政治权利国际公约》 Open letter to NPC on human rights By David Bandurski | Posted on 2013-02-26 In an open letter circulating on Chinese social media today, a group of more than 100 prominent individuals — including academics, journalists, lawyers, economists and former Party officials — call on China’s government to immediately ratify the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights , or ICCPR. The treaty, one of three main components of the UN’s International Bill of Rights , commits ratifying parties to a series of core individual civil and political rights , including freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and due process. Addressed directly to the Standing Committee of China’s National People’s Congress (NPC), the open letter poses a strong challenge to China’s incoming leadership ahead of the annual “two meetings” of the CPPCC , which are scheduled to convene on March 5 and March 3 respectively . The language of the open letter is reasoned and constructive, outlining China’s past achievements on human rights, including the Chinese Communist Party’s early pledge to “fight for human rights and freedom.” We understand from inside sources that this letter was originally intended for a Thursday release through a prominent Chinese newspaper. Authorities, however, learned of the letter by late Monday and the authors had no choice but to release it to the public today. Current signers of the letter include prominent legal scholar He Weifang ( 贺卫方 ), economist Mao Yushi ( 茅于轼 ), activist and scholar Ran Yunfei ( 冉云飞 ), well-known lawyers Pu Zhiqiang ( 浦志强 ) and Xu Zhiyong ( 许志永 ), investigative reporter Wang Keqin ( 王克勤 ), author Wang Lixiong ( 王力雄 ) and many, many others.
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