【大紀元1月30日電】2004年1月28日，參加瑞典首都“新時代群體滅絕”國際研討會的11名律師得知法國警方在巴黎無理拘捕法輪功學員一事。當他們了解了詳細情況後，立即聯名寫了一封致法國政府的公開信。其內容如下：
致法國政府的一封公開信
我們是一群來自美國、加拿大、台灣、芬蘭、丹麥、瑞典和西班牙的人權律師，我們聽聞二十多名法輪功精神運動修煉者昨日遭到巴黎警方拘留而深表憂心。很明顯的這些人士僅僅是因為身著黃色圍巾或黃色襯衫，代表他們是法輪功學員的標誌而遭受拘留。法輪功是一種古老的精神靜坐修煉，目前在中國遭到禁止。我們相信遭扣留的人士是和平的並未傷害或威脅任何人。這個事件發生在中共總書記﹑中國國家主席胡錦濤到法國做正式訪問期間。我們為法國政府失去其展現對中國人權的支持，並且呼籲中國政府尊重思想、言論及集會自由而感到遺憾。法國政府這項壓制行動不僅對中國政府提供錯誤的訊息，同時也違反了公民權及人權等基本原則，令人感到相當遺憾。法國政府此舉引發出令人憂慮的問題：法國是否仍願意堅守其得來不易的自由精神而令共產中國做出讓步？
與此同時，在瑞典首都斯德哥爾摩舉辦的“新時代的群體滅絕”國際研討會以及斯德哥爾摩國際論壇會議共同呼籲法國政府立即對此事件展開調查，並確保集會、信仰自由等基本人權得到完全的尊重。法國因其為一民主國家，並擁有一悠久且愛好自由的歷史而享譽國際。然而昨日所發生之事，將使得自由世界懷疑法國是否將繼續尊重其歷史。
斯德哥爾摩，2004 年 1 月 28 日
簽名
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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