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Chinese trade unionists: still in jail
* "By allowing Beijing to host the Games you will help the
development of human rights." Liu Jingmin, Vice President of the Beijing
2008 Olympic Games Bid Committee, April 2001
* "It will help promote all economic and social projects and will
also benefit the further development of our human rights cause." Liu Qi,
the former Beijing Mayor & the current president of Organizing Committee
for the Beijing Olympic Games, 13 July 2001.
* "We are convinced that the Olympic Games will improve the human
rights record in China", Jacques Rogge, president of the International
Olympic Committee, April 2002.
THE OLYMPIC PROMISE AND LABOUR STANDARDS IN CHINA
The international community hoped that China's Olympic promise would end
China's ongoing violation of fundamental human rights, including the use
of forced labour, the denial of freedom of association and the denial of
the right to collectively bargain. In particular, it was hoped that the
significant number of labour activists who have been imprisoned for no
other reason than trying to exercise basic workers' rights would be
released.
CHINA'S BROKEN PROMISE
What has really happened?
To date, China has failed to live up to its Olympic promise. Basic
workers' rights continue to be violated and labour activists continue to
be imprisoned. A significant number of labour activists remain in prison
for their peaceful actions to defend labour rights. Some of these have
been in prison since the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre. In fact, ever
since China's Olympic promise to improve human rights, more labour
activists have been detained. Some have sentences extending well past
ever the next Olympics in 2012.
SIGN the Letter
Hong Kong based campaign IHLO has highlighted four cases of workers and their supporters and produced a set of postcards to send on their behalf to the Chinese authorities. Click here for the PDF files of the postcards if you would like to take further action in support of individual prisoners.
Show China it cannot get away with breaking its Olympic promise.
http://www.ihlo.org/prisoners/en/
A list of Chinese worker activists in jail:
http://www.ihlo.org/DLA/POCS_011206.html