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Table of Contents

1. FCSSC Statement
2. Database of "6.4" Prisoners of Conscience Started
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1. Statement of Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars in Canada
on Chinese Government's Unjust Convictions of Chen Ziming and Wang Juntao

                 February 13, 1991

      As it has been reported, the Chinese government has recently
inhumanly sentenced, through secret trials, veteran democracy advocates
and prominent intellectuals Mr. Wang Juntao, who has been suffering from
serious hepatitis, and Mr. Chen  Ziming, who had been on hungerstrike,
each to thirteen years of severe imprisonment, after a series of secret
and unjust trials of many participants of the 1989 Chinese Pro-democracy
Movement.

      The Federation of Chinese students and Scholars in Canada,
representing its ten thousand members, hereby expresses its greatest
indignation and protest to such totally unjustified trials. We
strongly condemn the Chinese government's repeated practice of human
rights abuse and gross violation of the People's Republic of China
Constitution and criminal laws after the brutal June 4 Masscre.

      We firmly believe that Mr. Wang Juntao, Mr. Chen Ziming and
all the other arrested pro-democracy activists are innocent patriots
of China. Their words and deeds not only represent the common will of
the people of China, but also perfectly conform to the Chinese
Constitution. These people should be freed immediately with "no guilty"
convictions. And the Chinese people's lawful rights under the
Constitution must be restored.

      The persecution of the participants in the 1989 Pro-democracy
Movement by the Beijing regime in the past months has once again
revealed explicitly its stubbornness of repeatedly violating basic
human rights, breaching the Constitution, defying world opinions, and
openly opposing its own people.

      We appeal to peoples and governments in the world to continue to
support the Chinese people's struggle for democracy in many ways and
through various measures and help stop the Chinese government's
suppression to the Chinese people.

      We want to reiterate that the Federation of Chinese Students and
Scholars in Canada will stand forever by the Chinese people and make
unremitting efforts for the early achievement of freedom, democracy and
prosperity in China.

               Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars in Canada

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2. Database of "6.4" Prisoners of Conscience Started

     As is the concensus of the Executive Committee, FCSSC President
Dongqing Wei has recently approved a proposal of establishing a database
of information concerning the "6.4" prisoners of conscience made by Liu,
Xiufeng of the FCSSC Strategy and Theory Studies Department.

     Below is the proposal made by Liu, Xiufeng as introduced by Haosheng
Zhou, Head of the DSTS.

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           Department of Strategy & Theory Studies
      The Federation of Chinese Students & Scholars in Canada


          A Proposal for Data Base of June-4th Prisoners

Time to time, we found lack of sources when the references for
June-4th prisoners are in need. Due to lack of manpower, such
d-base plan was proposed but never implemented.

Now the DSTS finally found someone who is willing to pursue the
matter. Liu, Xiufeng, a student at UBC drafted the following
proposal. He is very active in HRG with CSSA of UBC. Here I ask
an approval from FCSSC for supporting the plan.

I initiated this from DSTS but if the Human Rights Group of FCSSC
takes over the job, I shall appreciate it.

Haosheng Zhou
Head of DSTS

Cc: Xiufeng Liu
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Title:          Database of "6.4" Prisoners of Conscience

Background:     After "6.4" massacre in 1989, thousands of
                dissidents were arrested and held incommunicado
                throughout China in connection with their
                participation in 1889's peaceful pro-democracy
                movement. Some were reportedly severely beaten or
                tortured by soldiers or police. Although some of
                them have been released under the pressure from
                both domestic and abroad, hundreds of them are
                still in prison. Especially, Chinese government
                is taking the advantage of gulf crisis and
                secretly putting some of them on trial. For
                example, Juntao Wang and Ziming Chan have been
                charged with " sedition and plotting to overthrow
                the government". Similar charges are likely to be
                brought against other pro-democracy activitists.
                Their fate is in a great uncertainty.

Objectives:    This database aims at collecting personal
                information for those "6.4" dissidents who are
                still in jail so that their personal information
                can be used by any person or agency in the
                efforts of their early release and freedom.

Rationale:      The people included in this database will be
                identified based on the statute of Amnesty Inter-
                national ( article 1 and 2 ) as this: "every
                person has the right freely to hold and to
                express his or her convictions and the obligation
                to extend a like freedom to others", the
                universal declaraton of human rights opposes "the
                detention of any prisoners of conscience or any
                trial procedures relatives to such prisonsers
                that do not conform to internationally recognized
                norms".

Sources:        1) official reports published and materials
                   provided by some well-known international
                   organizations such as Amnesty International.
                   This source will be taken as "reliable";
                2) internal network such China News Digest. This
                   source will be taken as "to be confirmed";
                3) Chinese newspapers and magnizes such as "Zheng
                   Ming". This source will be taken as
                   "uncertain".

Duration:       tentatively from Feburary 1 to August 31, 1991.

Personnel:      Human Right Group, CSSA at UBC.

Services:       News release once a month.

Budget:         1) communication fees (including mails): $75;
                2) copy and printing fees: $100;
                3) others: $25.
                total: $200.


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FCSSC == Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars, Canada
      ==  Quan Jia Xue Lian  (2,1,2,2)    (in Chinese)
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