Wei
Jingsheng Foundation News and Article Release Issue: A741-W467
魏京生基金会新闻与文章发布号：A741-W467
Release
Date: December 5, 2012
发布日：2012年12月5日
Topic:
Wei Jingsheng Foundation Ninth Annual "Wei Jingsheng Chinese Democracy
Champion Prize" Award Announcement
标题：魏京生基金会第九届 "魏京生中国民主斗士奖"颁发公告
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The
Wei Jingsheng Foundation Announces the Ninth Annual "Wei Jingsheng Chinese
Democracy Champion Prize" Award
December
5, 2012
Since
2004, the Wei Jingsheng Foundation has awarded the "Wei Jingsheng Chinese
Democracy Champion Prize" every year on December 5th. In the last eight years the awarding of
this prize has had reverberations around the world. Those people persisting in the fight in China, who are at
any moment in life-threatening danger, have thus been encouraged and consoled.
As
can be expected, those who nominate a candidate believe the person they have
nominated has made a great contribution to the cause of Chinese Democracy. Nominating someone in and of itself is
a way to commend all champions of democracy, including those unknown, untiring
democracy heroes who do not concern themselves with fame and fortune. We have great respect for their
strength of spirit and the sacrifices they have made. As in the past 8 years, this year's award gives greatest
consideration to those individuals and groups who have persisted in their work
on the domestic democracy movement inside China, especially these who gave up
their own freedom and even their lives.
Today's
China faces its turning point.
Political reform has been the desire of the people and the trend of the
times. However, many people's
effort and sacrifice contributed to the hope of the people who are alive. Many people who sacrificed naturally
wanted to see their own achievements, yet died prematurely. They should not be forgotten and will
not be forgotten.
The
recipient for this year's "Wei Jingsheng Democracy Champion Prize"
announced by the Foundation's Wei Jingsheng Democracy Champion Prize Judging
Committee is exactly such a person.
He is Mr. Wang Donghai, the leader who tried to break the ban of the
Chinese Communist Party on organizing an opposition party, and the first person
who publicly tried to register an opposition party in China that is now under
the one-party rule of the Communist Party.
Wang
Donghai of Hangzhou City in Zhejiang Province, was born on November 3, 1946,
and passed away on April 28, 2012.
He was a famous dissident, and a co-founder of the Chinese Democracy
Party. In 1979, Wang Donghai
participated in the Democracy Wall movement of Hangzhou, and was very active in
the pro-democracy movement in Zhejiang province. After the Communist authorities banned public protest
against the June 4 massacre in 1989, Wang Donghai, then a store manager,
organized and participated in a series demonstration activities in Hangzhou in
solidarity with the students. He
led his clerks and colleagues on the streets to protest, while holding banners
such as "Do not kill the students, shoot at me!" Therefore, he was sentenced to two
years on charges of "counterrevolutionary incitement and
propaganda". Afterwards, he
led signature campaigns and appeals that resulted in another year of
persecution in the name of "reeducation through labor" by the
Hangzhou Public Security Bureau.
On June 25, 1998, Wang Donghai along with Wang Youcai and Lin Hui, on
behalf of the Preparatory Committee, went to the Zhejiang Provincial Department
of Civil Affairs to apply for registration to establish the Zhejiang Committee
of the Chinese Democratic Party.
This application was the first effort to publicly organize an opposition
party under the Communist regime since 1949.
For
more details about this democracy champion Wang Donghai, please read the prize
dedication by Ms. Huang Ciping: "You Died before Winning the Battle, Which
Made all the Heroes Cry."
This
year's prize to Mr. Wang Donghai is also recognition of the dozens of members
of the Zhejiang Committee of the Chinese Democratic Party who have been in unity
for more than one decade in adhering to the opposition movement in China. Despite being in a land of plenty and
prosperity, in a coastal region of China with better economic conditions, these
people are willing to sacrifice their comfortable life to promote freedom and
democracy just as Wang Donghai did.
Zhejiang Province is one of the regions in China that have the most
persecution and imprisonment against the dissidents, as well as a region where
these dissidents have the most democratic consciousness, morale, and quality.
But
other dissidents throughout China are just as remarkable. They experienced torture suffering, yet
continue working toward a noble and beautiful goal one after another. What comforts us is that because of the
effort of these many people just like Wang Donghai, we are getting closer and
closer to our goal. We will carry
on the behest of Wang Donghai and accomplish what he strived for. Rest in peace, Mr. Wang!
This
year's award money donated by individuals totaled $7,000. Those who donated money are donating
their passion and belief in Chinese democracy. For this passion we want to express our deepest
gratitude. In addition we also
want to express our appreciation to all those people who recommended nominees
for our ninth annual "Wei Jingsheng Chinese Democracy Champion
Prize," include the nominators who are the laureates of "Wei
Jingsheng Chinese Democracy Champion Prize" from previous years. We thank all of you for your support
and encouragement.
Wei
Jingsheng Foundation "Wei Jingsheng Democracy Champion Prize" Judging
Committee:
Huang
Ciping, Chen Xingyu, Liu Jijie, Chen Bangzheng (signed)
For
more details about this year's awards, please refer to our prize dedication:
http://www.weijingsheng.org/report/report2012/report2012-12/WJSF9thPrize121206dedicationA742-W468.htm
Photo
of Wang Donghai:
http://www.weijingsheng.org/pic/newsletters/newsletters2012/newsletters2012-4/WangDHphoto.jpg
For
further information and detail, visit our website at: www.weijingsheng.org
or
contact us at HCP@weijingsheng.org or HCP0411WJS@aol.com or call
1-202-270-6980.
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中文版
Wei
Jingsheng Foundation News and Article Release Issue: A741-W467
魏京生基金会新闻与文章发布号：A741-W467
Release
Date: December 5, 2012
发布日：2012年12月5日
Topic:
Wei Jingsheng Foundation Ninth Annual "Wei Jingsheng Chinese Democracy
Champion Prize" Award Announcement
标题：魏京生基金会第九届 "魏京生中国民主斗士奖"颁发公告
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魏京生基金会第九届“魏京生中国民主斗士奖”颁发公告
自2004年以来，每年12月5日魏京生基金会都会颁发“魏京生中国民主斗士奖”。过去八年的颁奖在世界范围引起了很大的反响。对于正在中国坚持奋斗、随时都有生命危险的人们，是很大的鼓励与支持。
毫无疑义，被提名人为中国的民主和自由做出了卓越的贡献。提名本身是对所有民主斗士，包括那些默默无闻、坚持不懈、不计名利的勇士们的精神和所做的牺牲的赞扬。和往年一样，今年的获奖者以在中国国内坚持民主运动的人和团体，尤其是那些为民主与人权献出自由甚至生命的人们为主。
在中国面临转折点的今天，政治改革已是人心所向，大势所趋。然而，是许许多多先人的努力和牺牲，为活着的人们增添了希望。那些人自然也希望能看到自己的成就，但却为了他人而过早地去世了。他们是不该也不会被遗忘的。
现在，魏京生基金会的“魏京生中国民主斗士奖”评委会要宣布的，今年“魏京生中国民主斗士奖”的获得者就是这样的一个人。他就是要突破中共的党禁封锁，率先在中共独裁统治的中国公开申请组织反对党的王东海先生。
王东海，生于1946年11月3日，卒于2012年4月28日，浙江杭州人，著名异议人士，中国民主党创始人之一。1979年，王东海参加了杭州民主墙运动，是当时民运浙江地区的活跃人物。在1989年中共进行六四屠杀后当局禁止人们公开游行抗议的情况下，时任商场经理的王东海打着“不要杀学生，向我开枪！”的标语，带领职工与同仁上街游行，在杭州组织并参与了一系列声援学生的抗议游行活动，因此被以“反革命煽动和宣传”的罪名判刑两年。之后，由于在各种公开信和呼吁书上领衔签名，王东海多次遭到抓捕关押，又被杭州市公安局劳动教养一年。1998年6月25日，王东海与王有才、林辉三人到浙江省民政厅，以筹委会的名义率先向浙江省民政厅公开申请注册成立中国民主党浙江委员会。这是中共执政以来首次公开组织反对党的行为。
有关王东海生平的更多细节，请参见黄慈萍女士的相关颁奖辞：《出师未捷身先死，长使英雄泪满襟》。
今年对王东海先生的颁奖，也是对十多年来团结一致、坚持反对派运动的中国民主党浙江委员会成员们的表彰。虽然身处鱼米之乡、经济富裕的沿海地区，他们却忧国忧民，象王东海先生那样情愿放弃优越的生活条件来推动中国的民主和自由。浙江省是大陆中国系牢狱之灾最多，受迫害最深的地区之一，也是群体民主意识最强、民主士气最旺、民主素质最佳的地区之一。
但中国各地其他的异议人士又何尝不是如此呢？他们经历重重苦难，前赴后继，为的是同一个高尚而又美好的目标。值得欣慰的是，因为他们，这许许多多个王东海的共同努力，我们离这个目标越来越近了。我们会继承王东海的遗志，完成他未竟的事业。王东海安息！
这次汇集的奖金总额是7000美元。捐款的人们捐出的是他们对中国民主的热情和信念，在此我们表示衷心感谢。此外，我们也向第九届“魏京生中国民主斗士奖”参与提名的所有朋友，其中包括原先的“魏京生中国民主斗士奖”获得者们表示谢意。感谢您们的支持和鼓励。
魏京生基金会“魏京生中国民主斗士奖”评委会
黄慈萍，陈兴宇，刘继杰，陈邦铮（签署）
2012年12月5日
有关细节请参看颁奖词：
http://www.weijingsheng.org/report/report2012/report2012-12/WJSF9thPrize121206dedicationA742-W468.htm
王东海先生生前相片：
http://www.weijingsheng.org/pic/newsletters/newsletters2012/newsletters2012-4/WangDHphoto.jpg
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