Asia Cast for Wednesday 27th August
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In this Bulletin…
- Chinese political prisoner Hu Shigen released after 16 years;
- Tibet faces real possibility of increased repression now Olympics are over; and
- Protesters continue to occupy official buildings in Bangkok.
But first, here’s our SOH focus on China
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Human Rights in China announced that the Chinese authorities have released long-term political prisoner and veteran democracy advocate Hu Shigen.
Hu was released Tuesday, August 26, after serving sixteen years of a twenty-year sentence for counter-revolutionary crimes.
During 1991 when he worked as a lecturer in the Beijing Language Institute, Hu established the China Freedom and Democracy Party and the Preparatory Committee of the Free Labour Union of China.
Although the crimes he was convicted of were eliminated in a 1997 revision of the Criminal Law, Hu remained in prison for another eleven years, a situation that Human Rights in China Executive Director, Sharon Hom, called tragic.
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