Overseas Chinese Democracy Coalition News and Article Release Issue Number: A917-O254

中国民主运动海外联席会议新闻与文章发布号：A917-O254

Release Date: February 14, 2016

发布日：2016年2月14日

Topic: Overseas Chinese Democracy Coalition Holds Its 13th Conference in the US Capital Washington DC and Issues Statement

标题：中国民主运动海外联席会议2016年第十三届会议在美国首都华盛顿举行并发表声明

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Overseas Chinese Democracy Coalition Holds Its 13th Conference in the US Capital Washington DC and Issues Statement

On February 12 and 13, 2016, the Overseas Chinese Democracy Coalition (OCDC) Held its 13th conference in Washington DC, the Capital city of the USA. It started in the morning on February 12 in the Rayburn House Office Building of the US Congress and ended in the afternoon on February 13, 2016. The main purpose of the conference was to discuss the current situation in China and what the Chinese democracy activists should do to push for democratic change in China. The main agenda on February 12 include the discussion of the chairman's report and the latest reports of Hong Kong and Taiwan by delegates who had just returned from those places. The main agenda on February 13 included the discussion of future work and elections. This conference elected Wei Jingsheng as the Chairman, Huang Ciping as the Secretary-General, and Sam Chin as the Deputy Secretary-General. Before the conference, some delegates also participated a series of other activities in the US Congress.

Since its founding in 1998, the OCDC had held its conferences in Niagara-on-the-Lake in Canada, New York in the USA, Bonn in Germany, Washington DC in the USA, Ferney-Voltaire in France, Geneva in Switzerland, Annemasse in France, Orlando in Florida, Williamsburg in Virginia, and Nashville in Tennessee, USA, etc.

Below is a communiqué from this conference reached at the end of the conference.

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The Overseas Chinese Democracy Coalition Protests the Chinese Authorities Arresting People Across the Border and Calls Attention to the Deterioration of Human Rights in Hong Kong

(Washington, DC, February 13, 2016) Today, the Overseas Chinese Democracy Coalition issued a statement strongly protesting the Communist regime's trampling damage to Hong Kong's "One Country, Two Systems" Principle. It calls on the international community to be concerned of the further deterioration of human rights in Hong Kong.

As one of the important topics of this thirteenth conference, the representatives from Canada-Hong Kong Link and Toronto Association for Democracy in China spoke about the plight of current human rights and rule of law in Hong Kong, as well as the support and solidarity that the overseas Chinese democracy movement should give to people of Hong Kong.

Bo Lee, one shareholder of the Causeway Bay Bookstore was recently escorted to Mainland China from Hong Kong without the legal proceedings of Hong Kong. The Chinese authorities acknowledged that four other missing shareholders and employees of the bookstore are also in Mainland China to accept so-called "criminal investigation".

Wei Jingsheng, the chairman of the coalition, pointed out that the illegal arrests and detentions of these shareholders and clerks of the Causeway Bay Bookstore by the Communist regime across the border is a big setback of human rights in Hong Kong, a serious violation of the Sino-British Joint Declaration, and is undermining the "one country, two systems" principle promised by the Communist regime.

He said that the perversion of the Communist regime is waking more people in Hong Kong, and making them realize that people in Mainland China and people in Hong Kong are really closely related and share the same fate on the defense of human rights issues.

The Overseas Chinese Democracy strongly condemns the Chinese authorities ignoring the concerns of the international community and brazenly cross-border kidnapping these people. The coalition calls on the Chinese authorities to immediately and unconditionally release the five kidnapped persons include Bo Lee; meanwhile the Chinese authorities should guarantee to the people of Hong Kong it will ensure effective compliance with the Hong Kong Basic Law, and let the law enforcement inside Hong Kong will only be carried out by the law enforcement officers of Hong Kong, and the rights and freedoms enjoyed by Hong Kong people should be protected.

The 13th conference of the Overseas Chinese Democracy Coalition opened in the Rayburn House Office Building of the US Congress on February 12, 2016, and ended on February 13, 2016.

On February 11, the Wei Jingsheng Foundation, the European Parliament Liaison Office with the US Congress and other organizations held the second "Human Rights Without Borders" exhibition in the foyer of the Rayburn House Office Building, to show the public and the media displays of the human rights issue in Hong Kong and Tibet.

In the afternoon of that day, US Congressional members, European and American politicians, members from non-governmental organizations and overseas Chinese democracy activists participated in the second "Human Rights and Freedom Defender" prize ceremony of the Wei Jingsheng Foundation, when prizes were awarded to the House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi and Mr. Robert L. Bernstein.

An Asia Democracy Alliance seminar was held in the same building, which had participating activists from Tibet, Xinjiang/East Turkistan, Hong Kong, Myanmar/Burma, Vietnam and Mainland China, etc.

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Overseas Chinese Democracy Coalition News and Article Release Issue Number: A917-O254

中国民主运动海外联席会议新闻与文章发布号：A917-O254

Release Date: February 14, 2016

发布日：2016年2月14日

Topic: Overseas Chinese Democracy Coalition Holds Its 13th Conference in the US Capital Washington DC and Issues Statement

标题：中国民主运动海外联席会议2016年第十三届会议在美国首都华盛顿举行并发表声明

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中国民主运动海外联席会议2016年第十三届会议在美国首都华盛顿举行并发表声明

2016年2月12日与13日，中国民主运动海外联席会议2016年第十三届会议在美国首都华盛顿举行。会议于2月12日上午在美国国会雷伯恩辦公大楼开幕，13日下午结束。会议的主要内容是讨论当前中国的局势和民主派的任务。12日的主要议程是讨论主席报告，由刚从香港、台湾回来的人士们做有关香港及台湾的最新报告。13日的主要内容是讨论今后的工作方向及选举。会议选出魏京生为主席，黄慈萍为秘书长，秦新民为副秘书长。会议前，与会的一些代表们还参加了在美国国会举办的其它一系列活动。

自从1998年成立以来，中国民主运动海外联席会议在加拿大的湖滨尼亚加拉、美国纽约市、德国的波恩、美国首都华盛顿、法国的费内-伏尔泰、瑞士的日内瓦、法国的阿讷马斯、佛罗里达州的奥兰多、弗吉尼亚州的威廉斯堡，和田纳西州的纳什维尔都召开过会议。以下为本届联席会议结束时所通过的会议公报。