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Amnesty Asks China to Free
Anti-Olympic Activists
Reuters
Monday December 10, 2007
BEIJING—A London-based international human
rights watchdog has called for China to free activists in custody
for staging anti-Olympic protests over land grabs and forced evictions.
Amnesty International urged China to immediately and unconditionally
release Yang Chunlin, who was detained in July for his involvement
in a petition "We Want Human Rights, not the Olympics"
signed by farmers protesting against land seizures.
Yang reportedly on numerous occasions had his arms and legs stretched
and chained to the four corners of an iron bed, Amnesty said,
adding that he was then left to eat, drink and defecate in that
position.
Ahead of the Dec. 10-12 International Olympic Committee executive
board meeting in Lausanne, Amnesty also asked China to free housing
activist Ye Guozhou, who is serving a four-year prison sentence
for organizing protests against forced evictions ahead of the
2008 Beijing Olympics.
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Ye's brother Ye Guoqiang was detained in September on suspicion
of "inciting subversion." Ye Guozhu's son Ye Mingjun
has been released on bail and awaits trial on a similar charge.
Amnesty also took up the cudgels for Wang Ling who was sent to
a labor camp last month to undergo 15 months of re-education for
signing petitions and preparing banners in protest against the
demolition of her property for Olympic construction projects.
It said she was beaten on numerous occasions.
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