多国人权律师联名致信法国政府爲法轮功寻公道

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【正悟网】（大纪元1月30日报导）2004年1月28日，参加瑞典首都「新时代群体灭绝」国际研讨会的11名律师得知法国警方在巴黎无理拘捕法轮功学员一事。当他们了解了详细情况后，立即联名写了一封致法国政府的公开信。其内容如下：

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致法国政府的一封公开信

我们是一群来自美国、加拿大、台湾、芬兰、丹麦、瑞典和西班牙的人权律师，我们听闻二十多名法轮功精神运动修炼者昨日遭到巴黎警方拘留而深表忧心。很明显的这些人士仅仅是因爲身著黄色围巾或黄色衬衫，代表他们是法轮功学员的标志而遭受拘留。法轮功是一种古老的精神静坐修炼，目前在中国遭到禁止。我们相信遭扣留的人士是和平的并未伤害或威胁任何人。这个事件发生在中共总书记、中国国家主席胡锦涛到法国做正式访问期间。我们爲法国政府失去其展现对中国人权的支持，并且呼吁中国政府尊重思想、言论及集会自由而感到遗憾。法国政府这项压制行动不仅对中国政府提供错误的讯息，同时也违反了公民权及人权等基本原则，令人感到相当遗憾。法国政府此举引发出令人忧虑的问题：法国是否仍愿意坚守其得来不易的自由精神而令共産中国做出让步？

与此同时，在瑞典首都斯德哥尔摩举办的「新时代的群体灭绝」国际研讨会以及斯德哥尔摩国际论坛会议共同呼吁法国政府立即对此事件展开调查，并确保集会、信仰自由等基本人权得到完全的尊重。法国因其爲一民主国家，并拥有一悠久且爱好自由的历史而享誉国际。然而昨日所发生之事，将使得自由世界怀疑法国是否将继续尊重其历史。

斯德哥尔摩，2004 年 1 月 28 日

签名
Lana Han , Georges Henri Beauthier, Theresa Chu, Carlos Iglesias,
Joshua Sondheimer, Mikala Hallund, Terri Marsh, Erkki Kannisto,
Clive M. Ansley

An Open Letter to the Government of France

We, human rights attorneys from the U.S., Canada, Taiwan, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, and Spain, are deeply disturbed to hear that scores of practitioners of Falun Gong spiritual movement were detained yesterday by the police in Paris. It appears that these individuals were singled out for detention simply because they were wearing yellow scarves or yellow shirts, indicating that they were practitioners of Falun Gong, an ancient spiritual meditation exercise now banned in China. We understand that the individuals who were detained were peaceful and had not harmed or threatened anyone. This incident occurred during the official state visit to France by Hu Jintao, Secretary General of the Communist Party and President of the People`s Republic of China. We regret that the French government failed to demonstrate its support for human rights in China and to urge that the Chinese government respect freedoms of conscience, expression, and association. The French government, through these acts of repression, has not only sent the wrong message to the Chinese government, it regrettably appears to have violated basic principles of civil and human rights. The French government´s action raises disturbing questions about whether France is willing to restrict hard-won freedoms solely to appease the Communist Chinese state.

While together here at an international conference on genocide in Stockholm, Sweden, in affiliation with the Stockholm International Forum, we would like to call on the government of France to immediately initiate an investigation of this incident, and to ensure that essential human rights to freedom of association and freedom of belief are fully respected. France has been known as a democratic country with a long-standing history of liberty and freedom. What occurred yesterday brings doubt to the free world that France intends to respect that history.

Stockholm, January 28, 2004

Signed by:
Lana Han
Georges Henri Beauthier
Theresa Chu
Carlos Iglesias
Joshua Sondheimer
Mikala Hallund
Terri Marsh
Erkki Kannisto
Clive M. Ansley

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