Breaking News – Bao Dan urges the Two sessions to adopt the “International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights”
During the recent Two Sessions of the CCP, SOH interviewed Mr Bao Dan, the secretary to the former General Secretary of the CCP Zhao Ziyang. Mr Bao urged the Two Sessions to discuss and adopt the United Nations International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (UN ICCPR).
Mr Bao points out that the National People’s Congress (NPC) is meant to discuss issues of concern to the people. This congress should approve and become assigned to the UN ICCPR. “Because in 1998 the Chinese government in 1998 sent representatives to the UN in New York to sign the ICCPR, but 10 years on, the NPC has not signed or even discussed this covenant.
Mr Bao says this is quite abnormal. The Beijing Olympics will be on this year and the CCP is trying hard to mould its image on the international stage. I think this is a very good opportunity.”
Recently a group of human rights advocates and those in the legal fraternity have started a movement to request the NPC to approve the UN ICCPR. So far the movement has received signatures and support from 14000 Chinese citizens from around China.
Mr Bao points out that the NPC should discuss issues that are of concern to the people and not the leaders, otherwise it cannot be a people’s congress.
Mr Bao Dan was the secretary to the former General Secretary of the CCP Zhao Ziyang, former Secretary to the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, former member of the Central Committee of the Commjnist Party and Head of Chinese Political Reform Research Committee. Since the Tiananmen incident he was sentenced to 7 years mprisonment and was the highest ranking CCP official to be sentenced after the incident. After release he was under lengthy house arrest and cut off from outside contact.
The above news is brought to you by Lin Nan, Fan Liang and Chris Thomas from SOH Radio Network.
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