加拿大六位前部长公开信，要求释放被判入狱18年的王炳章/轉載

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加拿大六位前部长公开信，要求释放被判入狱的中国持不同政见者

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渥太华

2020年9月15日发布

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在1998年2月6日的档案照片中可以看到王炳章。

六位加拿大前司法和外交大臣写了一封公开信，敦促中国立即释放生病的持不同政见者，并允许他返回加拿大与家人同住。

在麦吉尔大学医学院就读的人权倡导者王炳章在中国秘密警察于2002年在越南绑架他并将其偷运到中国后，在中国监狱里苦苦挣扎了18年。监狱生活被单独监禁。

在给中国外交部长王毅的信中，加拿大的六位前部长说，王医生遭受了三次令人衰弱的中风，并且被拒绝与住在加拿大的家庭成员接触。

他们写道：“他继续患有其他慢性疾病，包括高血压和深静脉血栓形成，使他的生命处于极端危险之中，尤其是在COVID-19大流行期间。” “然而，他一直被拒绝与加拿大家庭成员接触，其中大多数人被禁止进入中国。”

六位前司法部长安妮·麦克拉伦（Anne McLellan），欧文·科特勒（Irwin Cotler）和艾伦·洛克（Allan Rock）以及前外交部长劳埃德·阿沃西（Lloyd Aworthy），劳伦斯·坎农（Lawrence Cannon）和安德烈·欧勒莱特（Andre Ouellet）要求立即释放王博士，“以免他不必要和不法的苦难消失，他可能会在加拿大与家人度过余生。”

他们还敦促北京向王医生的家人提供他的病历，以便可以对他的照顾进行独立评估，并取消限制他的家人离开中国的限制。

王博士是中国公民，但他的许多直系家庭成员，包括他的弟弟，妻子和孩子，都是加拿大公民和居民。他的姐妹住在不列颠哥伦比亚省。

加拿大前政治人物表示，王华博士-海外华侨民主运动的前领导人-在越南进行了为期仅半天的假审判，在越南被非法绑架，并被指控犯有间谍罪和恐怖主义罪。

六人说，有目击者提供的新证据表明他们的证词是错误的。

他们写道：“在审判中，王医生被剥夺了发表演讲或出庭作证的机会，也没有针对他提出任何可靠的证据或现场证人证词。” “此外，现在有强有力的证据表明，针对王医生的案子是伪造的。至少，大量令人信服的无罪证据要求进行新的审判。”

联合国任意拘留问题工作组，人权观察，大赦国际和拉乌尔·沃伦贝格人权中心等国际组织都表示反对王博士的监禁，称其为武断。

国会和美国国会通过了决议，呼吁中国释放王医生，并允许他返回加拿大。

中国驻渥太华大使馆对公开信没有立即回应。

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Six former Canadian ministers call for release of jailed Chinese dissident in open letter

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PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
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Wang Bingzhang is seen in a Feb. 6, 1998, file photo.

Six former Canadian justice and foreign affairs ministers have penned an open letter urging China to immediately release an ailing Chinese dissident and allow him to return to Canada to live with his family.

Wang Bingzhang, a human-rights advocate who studied at McGill University’s faculty of medicine, has been languishing in a Chinese prison for the past 18 years after Chinese secret police kidnapped him in Vietnam in 2002 and smuggled him to China, where he was sentenced to life in prison in solitary confinement.

In the letter to Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, the six former Canadian ministers say Dr. Wang has suffered three debilitating strokes and has been denied access to family members who live in Canada.

“He continues to suffer from other chronic diseases, including high blood pressure and deep vein thrombosis, putting his life at extreme risk, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic,” they wrote. “Yet he has consistently been denied access to Canadian family members, most of whom have been barred from entering China.”

The six – former justice ministers Anne McLellan, Irwin Cotler and Allan Rock and former foreign affairs ministers Lloyd Aworthy, Lawrence Cannon and Andre Ouellet – asked for the immediate release of Dr. Wang “so that his needless and wrongful suffering may end and that he may live out his remaining days with his family in Canada.”

They also urged Beijing to provide Dr. Wang’s family with his medical records, so an independent assessment can be made of his care, and to lift the restrictions that bar his family members from China.

Dr. Wang is a Chinese national, but many of his immediate family members, including his younger brother, his wife and children, are Canadian citizens and residents. His sisters live in British Columbia.

The former Canadian politicians say Dr. Wang – the former leader of the overseas Chinese democracy movement – was illegally abducted in Vietnam and convicted of trumped-up espionage and terrorism charges in a sham trial that lasted only half a day.

The six say there is new evidence from witnesses that their testimony was false.

“At trial, Dr. Wang was denied the opportunity to speak or present evidence, and no credible evidence or live witness testimony was presented against him,” they wrote. “Moreover there is now powerful evidence that the case against Dr. Wang was falsified. At the very least this mass of compelling exonerating evidence calls for a new trial.”

International organizations such as the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights have voiced their opposition to Dr. Wang’s imprisonment, calling it arbitrary.

Parliament and the U.S. Congress have passed resolutions calling on China to release Dr. Wang and allow him to return to Canada.

The Chinese embassy in Ottawa did not have an immediate response to the open letter.

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