胡泳 | Open letter marks unprecedented call for reforms
http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/world/open-letter-to-cpc-officials-marks-unprecedented-call-for-reforms/article4459417.ece BEIJING, February 27, 2013 Open letter to CPC officials marks unprecedented call for reforms An open letter — signed by more than 100 prominent Chinese scholars, economists, journalists and former Communist Party officials — has issued an unprecedented call for political reforms, days ahead of a crucial Parliament meeting. The letter calls on the new CPC leadership, set to take up the top positions in the government following the week-long meeting of the National People’s Congress (NPC) which opens here on March 5, to ratify international human rights treaties “in order to further promote and establish the principles of human rights and Constitutionalism in China”. The statement is among the boldest calls yet from Chinese intellectuals to push political reforms, an issue that is expected to come up at the NPC session which will see General Secretary Xi Jinping take over from Hu Jintao as President. Among the authors were legal scholar He Weifang; economist Mao Yushi; lawyers and rights advocates Pu Zhiqiang and Xu Zhiyong; and China’s most well-known investigative journalist Wang Keqin.The letter was published by the Hong Kong-based China Media Project after it was circulating on some Chinese social media websites. The authors had initially planned to publish the letter later this week, before the March 5 opening, in a prominent newspaper. After authorities had apparently sought to prevent its publishing, the contents were released online
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