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Representative Christopher Smith, Chairman and Senator Sherrod Brown, Cochairmanof the Congressional-Executive Commission on Chinaannounce a hearing on “One Year After the Nobel Peace Prize Award to Liu Xiaobo: Conditions for Political Prisoners and Prospects for Political Reform”Tuesday, December 6, 2011 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. 2172 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, DC One year ago, the Nobel Committee awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize to Liu Xiaobo "for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China." Today, Liu Xiaobo remains in a Chinese prison serving the third year of an 11-year sentence, while authorities hold his wife under a de facto form of house arrest. Across China, authorities persist in harassing and detaining democracy and human rights advocates. This hearing will discuss Liu's views on Chinese political reform and society; Charter 08, a grassroots political reform treatise signed by Liu and thousands of Chinese citizens; the essays that formed the basis of the government's "inciting subversion" charges against Liu; and the impact, if any, of Liu's Nobel Peace Prize in China. In addition, witnesses will discuss conditions for other political prisoners and activists, as well as the prospects for political reform in China in the near future. Witnesses: Panel 1: Perry Link, Chancellorial Chair for Innovative Teaching, Comparative Literature & Foreign Languages, University of California, Riverside; Professor Emeritus, East Asian Studies, Princeton University Li Xiaorong, Independent Scholar Marian Botsford Fraser, Chair, Writers in Prison Committee of PEN International Carl Gershman, President, National Endowment for Democracy Panel 2: Chai Ling, Founder, All Girls Allowed Harry Wu, Executive Director, The Laogai Research Foundation & Laogai Museum Reggie Littlejohn, President, Women's Rights Without Frontiers Pastor Bob Fu, Founder and President, ChinaAid Association Statement of Representative Christopher Smith, Chairman, Congressional-Executive Commission on China A complete transcript of this CECC Hearing is available here in PDF and TEXT.
Part One: Part Two: Click here to download a copy of the Commission's full 2011 Annual Report. The Congressional-Executive Commission on China, established by the U.S.-China Relations Act of 2000 as China prepared to enter the World Trade Organization, is mandated by law to monitor human rights, including worker rights, and the development of the rule of law in China. The Commission by mandate also maintains a database of information on political prisoners in China-individuals who have been imprisoned by the Chinese government for exercising their civil and political rights under China's Constitution and laws or under China's international human rights obligations. All of the Commission's reporting and its Political Prisoner Database are available to the public online via the Commission's Web site, http://www.cecc.gov. |
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