China's Problems are the World's problems.

By HENRY SANDERSON

The Associated Press

November 28, 2008

"Here are some photocopies from magazines in the library. The health of the leader is not good."

That was enough to have this research scientist shot to death.

Our father is dead because he gave Taiwan information in the public domain.

A Chinese medical researcher and businessman was executed Friday on charges of spying for Taiwan, his family said.

Ran Chen, who has Austrian citizenship, said her father's execution by gunshot was confirmed at 5 p.m. via the Austrian embassy in Beijing.

'Today, our beloved father, Wo Weihan, was executed,' a statement from Chen and her sister Di Chen said. 'His life was taken from him before he or our family could say its last goodbyes.'

The family were hopeful he might be spared after they visited him at a Beijing court Thursday morning, their first meeting since he was detained almost four years ago, and were later told a second visit had been approved.

Neither the family nor Wo had received official notification about the execution, and so he did not leave any final words with them, the statement said. He had been surprised and happy to see them, it said.

The execution raised several questions about China’s fledgling judicial system and the death penalty at a time when legal experts have been patting the country on the back for attempting to carry out a far-reaching reform of the system.

The prosecution alleged that Wo, who was detained in March 2005, gave Taiwan’s intelligence analysts top-secret military intelligence, some of which appeared to be little more than photocopies of publications available in the library of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He was also accused of providing details to Taiwan regarding the health of a senior Communist Party official. As his case involved alleged state secrets, it was a closed trial. Wo was sentenced to death on May 27 2007. He then lodged an appeal with the Supreme People’s Court, which supported the original ruling.

Human rights workers say the case was full of irregularities because it involved state secrets. “The Wo case was riddled from the beginning with a critical lack of transparency and due process,” said Phelim Kine, an Asian researcher with Human Rights Watch Asia, which is based in the United States. “This case highlights some of the leading deficiencies in the Chinese legal system.” Joshua Rosenzweig, a senior manager for research for the Dui Hua Foundation, said Wo was detained for 10 months without access to a lawyer or to evidence that was being used against him. “Procedural problems are commonplace in the Chinese legal system,” he said.

It is also believed that Wo was mistreated during this period and forced to make a confession under duress without access to a lawyer. It is believed that he later attempted to recant his confession, but that his request was refused, according to Mr Kine and Mr Rosenzweig. “The use of pressure tactics and outright torture by the police to derive confessions is rampant in China,” Mr Kine said. Meanwhile, Wo’s family and lawyers had little or no access to evidence that was used in the trial.

“Any case dealing with state secrets becomes a black box in which a person can disappear,” Mr Kine said. “Wo entered that black box and it consumed him.” According to the Dui Hua Foundation, there are 68 types of crimes in China that can be punished by the death penalty, including such non-violent crimes as official corruption and drug trafficking. Beijing claims the number of death sentences fell by 30 per cent in 2007 compared with 2006, as the authority over the review of all capital cases was restored to the Supreme People’s Court in Jan 2007. Although the number of people executed each year is a state secret, it is believed China executes more people each year than any other country. Dui Hua estimates that there were as many as 6,000 people executed in 2007 "Gai wa cho tsien!(fuck off!) Asking questions in China about Human rights, or conditions, or taking photos often leads to police harassment and arrest. In the case of a Chinese it could lead to imprisonment and "harvesting" organs for sale from your body while you are still alive! China's Problems lead to loss of Human Rights. China's increasing population (12 million more a year) and decreasing food supply will cause many millions to leave the ant's nest and over-run the world. Goodbye Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Better start learning Chinese fast. http://www.npg.org/forum_series/china_emerging.htm

How many more people have to die like Wei Wenhua, who was beaten to death by officers in Hubei province in January for filming villagers protesting against Chinese authorities dumping garbage in their neighborhood?

How much longer will Tibetans have to suffer under forced "re-education" and, as the dalai lama aptly put it, "cultural genocide"? How many more journalists and bloggers have to be thrown in prison? How many dissidents must disappear? When the world wows at the Olympic spectacle, will they care how many poor people had their homes razed or how much migrant labor was exploited for "beautification" projects or gaudy stadiums?

The time has come for action. Not as members of any political party, or adherents to any particular religion, but members of the human race who respect the dignity and inherent freedom of each and every individual.

This isn't about capitalizing on the platform of the Olympics to push a petty agenda item. It's about awakening the conscience of the world, which has been lulled into a cozy business relationship with the People's Republic and a "speak no evil" policy in diplomatic circles.

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************************************************************************************* British troops accused of executions and torture in Iraq. LONDON: Lawyers for five Iraqis have accused British soldiers of mass executions and torture and called for a police investigation into an “atrocious episode” in British army history. Phil Shiner and Martyn Day, who have brought several cases against the British military for its actions in Iraq, produced statements on Friday from five men who say they were detained by British forces after a battle in southern Iraq in May 2004. The men, who were blindfolded and bound, said their captors repeatedly beat and abused them, including forcing them to strip naked. While detained, they said they heard the systematic torture and execution of up to 20 other detainees. “On the basis of the evidence currently available, we are of the view that our clients’ allegations - that the British were responsible for the torture and deaths of up to 20 Iraqis - may well be true,” Day told a news conference. “Whether or not there is enough evidence to prosecute individual soldiers, it will only be by an open public inquiry that this question will be answered.” The military has already conducted its own investigation into the events surrounding the intense, two-hour battle between British troops and Iraqi insurgents, in which it says 28 Iraqi fighters were killed, and concluded there was no evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Shiner and Day say, on the basis of the witness statements and other evidence, that 29 people were detained, of whom 20 were killed in detention and nine were later freed. A second investigation, also by Britain’s military police, was opened last December after the families of some of the victims called for a judicial review. It is not known when that investigation will be concluded. As well as the witness statements, Shiner and Day produced photos, video footage and death certificates signed by Iraqi doctors that they said together painted a picture of violent, deadly abuse perpetrated by British troops. They said there was evidence that two detainees had their eyes gouged out, one had his penis cut off, several were strangled or mutilated, some were shot in the back of the head and others had body parts systematically broken. “What went on whilst UK forces had the custody of Iraqi civilians is a disgrace, a stain on our nation, and a terrible stain on the reputation of all the good soldiers who have operated in Iraq,” Shiner said. However, the lawyers acknowledged there was a vast gulf between the British military’s account of what happened and the witnesses’ accounts. They also said they did not know which regiment of the British army was most likely responsible. “For the Iraqi version of events to be true, soldiers and officers from the British army would have to have conspired to cover up one of the most atrocious episodes in British army history,” Day said. As well as a public inquiry, the lawyers called for the investigation to be handed over to Britain’s regular police force, rather than the military police investigating its own. Reuters And atrocities occur continually in other parts of the world. p1

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