01.08.2008 - Czechs to join call for Chinese political prisoners adoption
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According to Olympic Watch, the symbolic adoption is to be in the form of support.
The information about the campaign that was launched today can be found on www.adopt2008.org.
"The initiators of the campaign have proposed that the national Olympic teams select a suitable form of support directly on the spot, for instance, enquiring of the Chinese hosts about the case, visits to prison or public dedication of their medals or sports achievements to the imprisoned fighters for human rights," Petr Kutilek from Olympic Watch told today.
For instance, it has proposed to the American team to support journalist Shi Tao, to the French team it has proposed Internet activist Hu Jia and to the German team it has proposed to support the Tiananmen Mothers leader, Ding Zilin.
The activists say that they would gradually publish the names of other Chinese human rights protectors on the Internet who are allegedly persecuted contrary to the promises by the Beijing Olympic Games organisers to improve the state of human rights in the country.
One week before the start of the Olympics, Olympic Watch called, apart from athletes, also on Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek to support Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama.
CTK has failed to obtain Topolanek's reaction.
The Chinese diplomacy complained at the Czech Foreign Ministry in recent days that Topolanek wore a Tibetan flag on the lapel of his coat at the time when he was announcing his visit to the Chinese Olympic Games at a press conference.
Olympic Watch is an organisation that was established in 2001 in reaction to the decision to hold the summer Olympic Games in China.
Its mission is to monitor the situation in the human rights area.
On Thursday the organisation informed that 17 Czech and foreign personalities, including former Czech president Vaclav Havel and Czech government members, called on the International Olympic Committee to ensure the full freedom of information in Beijing.
The open letter was signed, among others, by south African Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu and Chinese pro-democracy activist Wei Jingsheng.
(Ceske Noviny)
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