Amnesty International Calls for Urgent Action to Rescue Falun Gong Practitioner Guo Xiaojun

Amnesty International called for urgent action to rescue Falun Gong practitioner Guo Xiaojun on December 15th, 2010.

Guo Xiaojun, a former instructor at the Computer Science Department of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, insisted on practising Falun Gong, and was sentenced to five years in prison by a Chinese Communist Party court in 2000. He was arrested again in January 2010. During the World Expo, on July 6th, 2010, he was sentenced to four years in prison by Shanghai Baoshan Court. He was detained at the Tilanqiao Prison. Guo Xiaojun endured numerous forms of persecution, leading to vision loss. His family members have strongly requested letting him go abroad for medical treatment.

More information about Mr. Guo Xiaojun can be found at

http://www.clearwisdom.net/html/articles/2010/7/18/118663.html

http://www.clearwisdom.net/html/articles/2010/9/4/119822.html

Amnesty International proposed the following requests to related authorities/members on its website:

1. Calling on the authorities to release Guo Xiaojun unconditionally because he is a prisoner of conscience and he is detained only because he insists on his belief;

2. Calling on the authorities to guarantee that Guo Xiaojun is not subjected to torture or ill-treatment;

3. Calling on the authorities to ensure that he is given any medical attention and treatment he may require;

4. Calling for a full and impartial investigation into allegations that Guo Xiaojun was tortured in detention and to bring those responsible to justice.

Amnesty International suggested to its members to write letters before January 26th, 2011 to

1. Tilanqiao Prison Warden

Liu Jinbao
147 Changyang Road
Shanghai 200082

2. Chief Procurator of the Shanghai Municipal People's Procuratorate

Wu Guangyu
Shanghaishi Renmin Jianchayuan
648 Jianguo Xilu

Xuhuiqu
Shanghai 200030

3. Law Clerk of Shanghai Political and Legal Committee

Wu Zhiming
225 Wuxing Road
Shanghai 200030
Chinese Embassy in the U.S.

Ambassador Zhang Yexu
Embassy of the People's Republic of China
3505 International Place NW
Washington DC 20008

For more information on this Amnesty International Urgent Action, please visit

http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/ASA17/049/2010 /en/72176f56-6d4b-4e08-85ea-3a338a78271f/asa170492010en.html

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2010/12/29/234227.html