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Monday
10th December- International Human Rights Day: Protests
at Chinese
Embassy & Consulates
With only nine months to go to the Beijing Olympics 2008
China is winning a gold medal for human rights abuses.
Promised improvements in freedom of speech and in the
governments respect for human rights have turned into
crackdowns in Tibet, greater controls on journalists,
forced evictions, imprisonment of AIDS & Democracy
activists, continued persecution of religious
practitioners etc.
December 10th is World Human Rights Day and given
China's failure to improve its human rights record, we
call for mass protests outside of UK Chinese Embassies
and Consulates. We urge all opponents of China's
government to come and join us. The
Chinese government hopes to use the Beijing Olympics
Ceremony to gain international recognition that it is a
superpower, and hopes to use it to divert criticism for
it's lack of democracy, human rights and concern for the
environment. Let us unite
against the human rights abuses worldwide.
Details of protests & events on or around December
10th:
Note: Bring your own banners, flags, petitions etc! If
you cannot get to
any of these protests, why not run an information
stall/action in your
local area?
LONDON
Time: 6pm-8pm
Meeting Place: Chinese Embassy 49-51 Portland Place
London W1B 1JL
Details: Demonstration / Mock Human Rights 'awards'
ceremony for China and
Candle light and Prayers.
Manchester:
Time: 9am
Meeting Place: Denison House,71 Denison Road, Rusholme,
Manchester M14 5RX
Contact Details: luke@sftuk.org
Edinburgh:
10th December - 55 Corstorphine Road,
Edinburgh EH12 5QG
Contact Details: iain@sftuk.org
Phone/Fax Protest
For those who cannot make a protest, please phone/fax
your local embassy throughout the day, and inquire about
the health of prisoners of conscience such as Gedhun
Choekyi Nyima, the eleventh Panchen Lama, Tenzin Delek
Rinpoche, Mao Hengfeng and all of those languishing in
Chinese prisons. Alternatively, politely request that
China stop abusing human rights, and wish them a happy
international Human Rights Day!
Phone
Numbers:
London:020-72994049
Manchester:
0161-2489304
Edinburgh: 0131-3379896
Fax:
London: 020-76362981
Manchester: 0161-2572672
Edinburgh:
0131-3371790
Organising Group
Tibetan Youth UK
Students
for a Free Tibet
Tibetan Community in Britain
Leeds Tibet Society
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