國際筆會在奧斯陸再度呼籲釋放劉曉波

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作者：佚名 文章來源：獨立中文筆會 點擊數：26 更新時間：12/8/2010 11:42:16 AM

（奧斯陸，2010年12月9日）國際筆會今天在奧斯陸再度呼籲立即無條件釋放今年諾貝爾和平獎得主劉曉波，得到來自世界各地的作家、記者以及政治和民間領袖的回應。
 
劉曉波是獨立中文筆會前會長和30位創會會員之一。由國際筆會會長約翰·拉爾森頓·索羅、獄委主席瑪莉安·博茨福特·弗雷澤和獨立中文筆會會長廖天琪率領的20餘位筆會資深會員組成的代表團，將出席在奧斯陸的諾貝爾頒獎典禮以支持劉曉波博士。
 
國際筆會還將與國際特赦共同主辦12月10日星期五在奧斯陸召開的研討會，聚焦中國對作家和活動人士的持續鎮壓，並督促中國政府接受改革。
 
約翰·拉爾森頓·索羅評論說：“正是中國憲法要求中國政府保障公民權利和政治權利。劉曉波是信奉其全部合法權利的認真公民典範，他應為此得到讚揚而非遭受監禁。中國需要象劉曉波這樣的公民。”
 
看來將無人出現在明天的諾貝爾獎頒獎典禮上領取劉曉波的獎——他目前正在中國監獄裏服刑11年，而他的妻子劉霞被軟禁在家，失去音訊。
 
自10月獎項公佈以來，一些作家、藝術家、學者和活動人士在中國被當局禁聲。根據獨立中文筆會的消息，最近兩月包括筆會副會長和理事在內的30多位會員，以及數百位其他中國公民遭騷擾、傳訊、拘留、軟禁，或被阻止離開中國大陸旅行。
 
廖天琪說：“劉曉波不會是中國的審查制度和文字獄的最後受害者，作為獨立中文筆會榮譽會長，劉曉波真正代表了‘讓文字自由’的精神；作為諾貝爾和平獎得主，他在明天奧斯陸典禮上的缺席，加強了文字挑戰和轉變專制政權的力量。”
 
劉曉波博士是著名的中國作家和人權活動家，在因參加1989年的天安門廣場抗議活動而被捕入獄前，他在北京師範大學教中國文學。在學生運動期間，他為數千遭軍隊包圍的示威者推動談判達成和平撤離。他後來被指控煽動抗議，並失去了大學的工作。1995年，他被“監視居住”九個月，1996-1999年被勞教三年。他的所有著作在中國被禁，雖然繼續在國外發表。
 
2008年，因參與起草《08憲章》——一份要求更多言論自由的人權宣言，已有超過一萬名中國各階層人士簽署，劉曉波被中國當局第四次關押。2009年12月25日他被以“煽動顛覆國家政權罪”判刑11年。
 
國際筆會通過其獄中作家委員會，1990年起關注劉曉波的個案，20年來一直致力於支持處在威脅下的劉曉波和其他中國作家。他也是2010年慶祝獄委成立50周年紀念活動的第50個代表個案。
 
在國際筆會全球成員中有過多位諾貝爾文學獎得主，包括今年得主、國際筆會前會長馬里奧·巴爾加斯·略薩。不過，劉曉波是第一位被授予諾貝爾和平獎的筆會會員。
 
此外，本周在奧斯陸有一把“劉曉波的椅子”，由海倫斯堡龍蒙德學校的學生和員工為蘇格蘭筆會所制，已運往奧斯陸，成為筆會“釋放劉曉波”活動的視覺中心。椅上印有劉曉波博士像，以及他的一段中文語錄：
 
“我沒有敵人，也沒有仇恨……因為，仇恨會腐蝕一個人的智慧和良知，敵人意識將毒化一個民族的精神，煽動起你死我活的殘酷鬥爭，毀掉一個社會的寬容和人性，阻礙一個國家走向自由民主的進程。所以，我希望自己能夠超越個人的遭遇來看待國家的發展和社會的變化，以最大的善意對待政權的敵意，以愛化解恨。”
 
 “空椅子”代表了所有那些因其寫作而被監禁、審查或受到威脅，甚至被殺害而在公共領域缺席的作家。以這種方式紀念缺席的同事已成為筆會多年的傳統。
 
 
美國筆會會長克瓦米·安東尼·阿皮亞是劉曉波諾貝爾和平獎提名人之一，他說：“諾貝爾委員會選擇授予劉曉波和平獎，已經聚焦於他的事業：他所熱愛並為之工作的國家的民主化。中國政府的反應顯示在這一鬥爭中還要走多麼遠。但他自身的平靜勇氣，鼓舞我們關心自由的所有人，每天努力工作，以幫助中國實現作為每個人權利的基本自由。”
 
編者注：
國際筆會弘揚文學和促進言論自由。最初在1921年成立以促進文學，目前國際筆會在全球各地104個國家有145個分會。國際筆會的項目、運動、活動和出版物，把世界各地無論何處的作家和讀者聯繫起來。
 
國際筆會會長約翰·拉爾森頓·索羅將參加12月10日星期五上午9時與國際特赦聯合舉辦的研討會。獨立中文筆會廖天琪和張裕也將參加座談。活動地點在國際特赦挪威分部辦公室：奧斯陸Grensen大街3號。請聯繫卡爾·莫騰·艾弗森（Carl Morten Iversen）：+47 926 88 023 或 postmaster@norkpen.no。
 
聯繫獨立中文筆會：
廖天琪：+49 176 5472 3721或 tienchimartin@gmail.com
或張裕：+46 70 4857222或 yuzhang08@live.se
 
一般媒體查詢，請聯繫尼古拉·斯珀爾：+44 20 7405 0338或+44 772 686 7868 或 Nicola.spurr@internationalpen.org.uk 。
 
訪問國際筆會網站： www.internationalpen.org.uk
 
尋找更多關於劉曉波的資訊：http://www.internationalpen.org.uk/index.cfm?objectid=227779C9-3048-676E-26605C8214A0D2AE 和http://liuxiaobo.eu
 
（獨立中文筆會翻譯）

PEN INTERNATIONAL REITERATES CALL TO RELEASE LIU XIAOBO AS NOBEL PEACE PRIZE AWARDED IN OSLO
 
OSLO, 9 December 2010 – Today in Oslo, PEN International has reiterated its call, echoed by writers, journalists and essayists, as well as political and civic leaders around the world, for the immediate and unconditional release of Liu Xiaobo, recipient of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.
 
Liu Xiaobo is a past President of the Independent Chinese PEN Centre (ICPC) and one of its 30 founding members. A delegation of 20 senior PEN members, led by International President John Ralston Saul, along with Writers in Prison Committee Marian Botsford Fraser and ICPC President Tienchi Martin-Liao, are in Oslo and will be attending the Nobel prize-giving ceremony to represent Dr Liu. 
 
PEN International will also be co-hosting a seminar in Oslo on Friday 10 December, along with Amnesty International, to highlight the ongoing suppression of writers and activists across China and to urge China’s government to embrace reform. 
 
John Ralston Saul comments: “It is the Chinese Constitution that commits their government to civil and political rights.  Liu Xiaobo is a model of the serious citizen who embraces his full legal rights.  He should be admired for this, not imprisoned.  China needs citizens like Liu Xiaobo.”
 
There will likely be nobody present at tomorrow’s Nobel prize-giving ceremony to receive Liu Xiaobo’s prize – he is currently serving an 11-year prison sentence in China and his wife, Liu Xia, is under house arrest and incommunicado. 
 
Since the announcement of the prize in October, scores of other writers, artists, academics and activists in China have been silenced by the authorities.  According to the ICPC, more than 30 of its own members, including board members and vice presidents, along with hundreds of other Chinese citizens, have been harassed, summoned for interrogation, detained under house arrest or prevented from travelling from mainland China in the last two months. 
 
“Liu Xiaobo will not be the last victim of China’s censorship and literary inquisition,” says Tienchi Martin-Liao.   “As current Honorary President of the ICPC, Liu Xiaobo truly represents the spirit of ‘Free the Word’.  As Nobel Peace Laureate, his very absence at the Oslo ceremony tomorrow reinforces the power of the word to challenge and transform authoritarian regimes.”
 
Dr Liu is a renowned Chinese writer and human rights activist who taught Chinese literature at Beijing Normal University until he was jailed for his part in the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989.  During these student protests, he had been instrumental in negotiating a peaceful withdrawal for several thousand protestors penned in by the military.  He was later accused of inciting the protests and he lost his job at the university.  He was detained under house arrest for nine months in 1995 and underwent three years’ re-education through labour from 1996-9.  All his writings have been banned in China, although he has continued to publish outside the country.
 
In 2008, Liu Xiaobo was detained for the fourth time by Chinese authorities for his participation in the drafting of Charter 08, a human rights manifesto which calls for greater freedom of expression and which has been signed by over 10,000 Chinese people from all walks of life.  He was incarcerated for 11 years on 25 December 2009 after being convicted of “inciting subversion of state power”.






 
PEN International, through its Writers in Prison Committee, took up Liu’s case in 1990 and has been working to support him and other Chinese writers under threat for twenty years.  He is also the 50th emblematic case commemorated by the Writers in Prison Committee which celebrates its half-century in 2010.
 
PEN International counts many Nobel literature laureates among its global membership, including this year’s prizewinner, Mario Vargas Llosa, who is a former PEN International President.  However, Liu Xiaobo is the first PEN member to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
 
Also in Oslo this week is “A Chair for Liu Xiaobo”.  Created by students and staff at Lomond School in Helensburgh, for the Scottish PEN Centre, the chair has travelled to Oslo to become the visual centrepiece of PEN’s campaign to free Liu Xiaobo.  The chair contains Dr Liu’s image, along with one of his quotes in Chinese:
 
“I have no enemies and no hatred… ...for hatred is corrosive of a person’s wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation’s spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society’s tolerance and humanity, and block a nation’s progress to freedom and democracy. I hope therefore to be able to transcend my personal vicissitudes in understanding the development of the state and changes in society, to counter the hostility of the regime with the best of intentions, and defuse hate with love.”
 
 
The “empty chair” represents all those writers who are absent from the public sphere because they are imprisoned, censored or under threat, or have even been killed because of their writing.  It has become a PEN tradition over the years to commemorate absent colleagues in this way. 
 
Kwame Anthony Appiah, President of the PEN American Centre, was one of those who nominated Liu Xiaobo for the Nobel Peace Prize.  He says:  “The Nobel committee, in selecting Liu Xiaobo for the Peace Prize, has thrown the spotlight on his cause: the democratisation of the country he loves and works for. The response of the Chinese government shows how far there is to go in that struggle. But his own quiet courage inspires all of us who care about freedom to work hard every day to help the Chinese achieve the fundamental freedoms that are the right of every human being.”
NOTES TO EDITORS:
PEN International celebrates literature and promotes freedom of expression. Originally founded in 1921 to promote literature, today International PEN has 145 Centres in 104 countries across the globe. PEN programmes, campaigns, events and publications connect writers and readers wherever they are in the world.
John Ralston Saul, PEN International President, will be participating in a joint seminar with Amnesty International on Friday 10 December at 09h00.  Also on the panel will be Tienchi Martin-Liao and Yu Zhang of the ICPC.  This takes place at Amnesty International’s office at Grensen 3, Oslo.  Please contact Carl Morten Iversen at +47 926 88 023 or postmaster@norkpen.no. 
To speak to the Independent Chinese PEN Centre, contact Tienchi Martin-Liao at at +49 176 5472 3721 or tienchimartin@gmail.com..  Alternatively, contact  Zhang Yu at +46 70 4857222 or yuzhang08@live.se
For general media enquiries, contact Nicola Spurr at +44 20 7405 0338 or +44 772 686 7868 or Nicola.spurr@internationalpen.org.uk.
Visit the PEN International website at www.internationalpen.org.uk and find out more about Liu Xiaobo at http://www.internationalpen.org.uk/index.cfm?objectid=227779C9-3048-676E-26605C8214A0D2AE.