Breaking News – Professor appeals to government for change
According to a news report on February 16th, a professor at Beijing University’s Institute of Economics, Shang Dewen sent a letter to Hu Jintao and other high-ranking CCP officials, calling for progressive political reform.
In the open letter addressed to Hu Jintao, Wen Jiabao, Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang, Professor Shang demanded an end to the government’s stagnant state of political reform.
Professor Shang said that China’s economic reforms have basically reached their desired goal, however political reform is yet to begin. This has resulted in Chinese society becoming one of two extremes, which has resulted in the growth and emergence of a plethora of corrupt practices and crimes. The professor then spoke of the unlawful evictions of people from their land. In some places, government officials stray far from the CCP’s disciplinary guidelines and do as they please, killing and cruelly injuring the common people.
The open letter also said that freedom of religion should be respected, the rights of the Family Church should be acknowledged in Chinese law. More churches and less prisons should be built he suggested. He also stated that all those who have been imprisoned for political reasons and speaking out, for example: Gao Zhisheng, Guo Feixiong, Hu Jia, Chen Guangcheng and others should be released immediately.
The above news is brought to you by reporter Fu Ming and hosted by Daniel Teng for Breaking News on SOH Radio Network.
Leave a comment, a trackback from your own site or subscribe to an RSS feed for this entry.
trackback rss feed
Leave a Reply