Radio Free Asia: British Public Opinion Focusses on China's Human Rights Record

On April 30th, 2008, Radio Free Asia reported the news that British public opinion is paying attention to China's human rights situations. The articles were as follow:

The countdown to the Beijing Olympic Games has entered one hundred days and counting. Amnesty International, whose headquarters based in London are continuing an appeal for people to pay attention to China's human rights persecution. They have also started broadcasting an animation on the Internet revealing to those people, prisoners who are suffering from torture by Chinese policemen for their fight for China's human rights and broadcasting the extent of suffering from electric shocks. In the cartoon movie the electric stick in the policemen’s hand turns all of a sudden into an Olympic torch. The cartoon expressed that the torture violates the spirit of the Olympic Games. They hope that people all over the world would commence fighting for China's human rights and opposing China's torture record.

The animation was also broadcast in the British TV news. Amnesty International staff claimed in the British TV news that Mr. Yang Chunlin, a prisoner who appealed for human rights is also treated with merciless torture in prison.

Amnesty International staff said in Sky news that the torture that Mr. Yang is suffering is that both his hands were tightly tied to the pillar of an iron bed mercilessly without being untied for a whole week. He was kept in that posture while eating and his defecations and urinations were all on his bed. The British Star News' chief correspondent Peter in Beijing said that the presenting of the cartoon movie which describes China's human rights persecution will be a disaster for China’s international relationships.

Meanwhile, Britain's Guardian newspaper also reported on Wednesday in a Chinese report that a family being forced to leave their house for the sake of the Olympics. Guardian on-line was also broadcasting a visual version of the whole story. Mr. Sun Yonglian, a resident in Chaoyang district opposed the demolishing of his house. Mr. Sun expressed that the court had issued the last notice to remove his house. He had petrol prepared. The worst possibility was to set fire to himself and die together with the people who come along to demolish his house. In Sun's village, all the other housed, except Mr. Sun's were all demolished because there is a park to be built for the Olympic Games. He said that the compensation was much less than the cost to buy a new house. The Guardian newspaper said in the outstanding topic on Wednesday that this was the last person who insisted on safe guarding his own house.

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