【大纪元6月3日讯】国际笔会狱中作家委员会强烈抗议最近对《海峡时报》香港记者程翔的被捕和拘押，呼吁立即释放他。根据最新报道，程翔于2005年四月下旬在中国南方广州被拘捕。当局指控他是外国间谍，并打算以“盗取核心国家机密” 的罪名起诉他，但迄今为止，还没有任何的证据证实他们的指控。
据知情者说，程翔正要去取秘密采访已故赵紫阳的手稿，这位前总理、中共总书记1989年反对政府镇压天安门示威者而在政治上的垮台。据报道，采访录的出版将极大地损害共产党在中国的政权。
国际笔会认为拘捕程翔是毫无根据的，侵犯了他的言论自由权。
建议采取行动
请发出如下呼吁：
－－对拘捕程翔表示震惊，并敦促中国当局释放他；
提到日益关注对异见明显顽固的不容，以及对作家和记者的骚扰和拘捕的相应形式。
－－敦促中国当局遵守《人权宣言》第十九条所保障的言论自由原则。
呼吁书请寄：
中华人民共和国北京市100032
中华人民共和国国务院转国家主席胡锦涛阁下
中华人民共和国北京市100032
西皇城根北街9号总理温家宝阁下
传真：+86 10 6596 1109
中华人民共和国北京市100020
朝阳区朝阳门南大街10号司法部长张福森阁下
电子信箱： minister@legalinfo.gov.cn
传真：+86 10 65 292345
如果可能的话，请把呼吁书复印给你所在国的中国外交代表。如果呼吁书晚于2005年6月30日的话，请与狱中作家委员会核实。
若需进一步的信息，请与国际笔会狱中作家委员会联系： 9/10 Charterhouse Buildings,
London EC1M 7AT, U.K.
电话: +44(0)207 253 3226, 传真: +44 (0)207 253 5711,
电子信箱 :Intpen@gn.apc.org
（独立中文作家笔会狱中作家委员会译自英文原稿）
2 June 2005
RAN 21/05
People’s Republic of China: Prominent Journalist Detained
The Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) of International PEN strongly protests the recent arrest and detention of Ching Cheong, the Hong Kong based correspondent for The Straits Times Newspaper, and calls for his immediate release.
According to recent reports, Ching Cheong was detained in late April 2005 in Guangzhou, southern China. The authorities have accused him of being a foreign agent and intend to charge him with “stealing core state secrets”,but have so far failed to furnish any evidence to substantiate their allegation.
Sources familiar with the case claim that Ching Cheong was attempting to get hold of a manuscript of secret interviews with the late Zhao Ziyang, a former Premier and Secretary-General of the Communist Party who opposed the government clampdown on the Tiananmen Square protestors in 1989, which led to his political downfall. It has been reported that the publication of the interviews would be extremely damaging to the Communist regime in China.
International PEN believes the detention of Ching Cheong to be unwarranted, and a violation of his right to free expression.
Recommended Action
Please send appeals:
-Expressing alarm at Ching Cheong’s detention and urging
the Chinese authorities to release him;
-Referring to concerns about the seemingly intractable
intolerance of dissent in China and a corresponding pattern
of harassment and arrests of writers and journalists;
-Urging the Chinese authorities to respect the right to
free expression as guaranteed under Article 19 of the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Appeals to:
His Excellency Hu Jintao
President of the People’s Republic of China
State Council
Beijing 100032
P.R.China.
Salutation: Your Excellency
WEN Jiabao Guojia Zongli
Prime Minister of the People’s Republic of China
The State Council
9 Xihuangcheng Geneijie
Beijingshi 100032,
P.R. China
Fax: +86 10 6596 1109
Salutation: Your Excellency
His Excellency Zhang Fusen
Minister of Justice
10 Chaoyangmen Nandajie
Chaoyang-qu
Beijing-shi 100020
P.R.China
E-mail: minister@legalinfo.gov.cn
Fax: +86 10 65 292345
Salutation: Your Excellency
Please copy appeals to the diplomatic representative for China in your country if possible.
Please check back with WiPC if writing appeals after 30th June 2005.
For further information, please contact the Writers in
Prison Committee of International PEN, 9/10 Charterhouse
Buildings, London EC1M 7AT, United Kingdom. Tel:+44(0) 207
253 3226 Fax: +44 (0) 207 253 5711. Intpen@gn.apc.org.(http://www.dajiyuan.com)
