（独立中文笔会2010年2月11日讯）独立中文笔会等世界各地笔会、香港记者协会、北京之春杂志社、香港市民支援爱国民主运动联合会等各界团体及国际笔会负责人等今天发表联合声明，强烈抗议和谴责中国当局无视世界潮流和正义舆论的一意孤行，先后重判独立中文笔会荣誉会长刘晓波博士和荣誉会员谭作人十一年和五年徒刑，指出这“标志着中国当代文字狱已进入‘改革开放的春天’三十年来最黑暗寒冷的严冬”，呼吁国内外各界继续敦促中国有关当局认清潮流，立即无条件释放刘晓波、谭作人等所有因言获罪的良心犯。
联署这个声明的还有国际笔会副会长利多姆-阿克曼女士，秘书长舒尔金先生、狱中作家委员会前主席克拉克女士和现主席弗雷泽女士、前东德出生的以色列作家哈伊姆·诺尔先生等著名作家。
声明全文如下：
今天，中国农历新年前三天，北京市高级人民法院维持一审对参与起草和签署《零八宪章》的著名作家刘晓波博士的定罪和判刑，我们在此强烈抗议和谴责这种无视世界潮流和正义舆论的一意孤行。
去年12月25日圣诞节，北京市第一中级人民法院以“煽动颠覆国家政权罪”，针对刘晓波参与起草《零八宪章》和前几年发表的六篇文章中的只言片语，判处他11年重刑，开创了1997年《刑法》列入此罪以来的最高判刑记录，标志着中国当代文字狱已进入“改革开放的春天”三十年来最黑暗寒冷的严冬。两天前，四川省成都市中级人民法院以相同罪名判处维权人士谭作人五年徒刑，针对的只是一篇“六四广场日记”长文，单篇刑期甚至超过刘晓波案，也开创了一项最高纪录，标志着严冬仍在持续，中国言论自由的状况仍在恶化。
然而，我们坚信，世界潮流不可阻挡，正义舆论不容忽视。既然冬天已经到了，春天还会远吗？黑暗尽头必有光明。
捷克前总统哈维尔先生、斯洛伐克前总理祖林达先生、美国笔会会长阿皮亚教授、诺贝尔奖得主图图主教、达赖喇嘛、缪勒女士等世界各国越来越多政界领袖、国会议员、学者教授、作家、人权活动家等著名人士公布提名和支援刘晓波争取诺贝尔和平奖，具有提名资格者已经超过一百多人，其他回应者更数以万计，正标志着这最黑暗寒冷的严冬里不可阻挡的暖流和光明。
为此，我们呼吁国内外各界继续敦促中国有关当局认清潮流，遵守中国早已签署的联合国《政治权利和公民权利国际公约》，立即无条件释放刘晓波、谭作人等所有因言获罪的良心犯。
签署团体：
独立中文笔会
香港记者协会
北京之春杂志社
齐氏文化基金会
普林斯顿中国学社
中国政治及宗教受难者后援会
香港中国笔会
劳改基金会
中国维权律师关注组
南非笔会
的里雅斯特笔会
塞拉利昂笔会
香港市民支援爱国民主运动联合会
香港天主教正义和平委员会
香港教育专业人员协会
克罗地亚笔会
加泰兰笔会
中国受难公民基金会
瑞典笔会
挪威笔会
瑞士法语笔会
德国笔会
联署个人：
乔安尼·利多姆-阿克曼（Joanne Leedom-Ackerman）——国际笔会副会长
尤金·舒尔金（Eugene Schoulgin）——国际笔会秘书长、狱中作家委员会前主席
卡琳·克拉克博士（Dr. Karin Clark）—— 国际笔会狱中作家委员会前主席、德国作家
玛莉安·博茨福特·弗雷泽（Marian Botsford Fraser）——国际笔会狱中作家委员会主席、加拿大笔会前会长
哈伊姆·诺尔（Chaim Noll）——前东德出生的以色列作家
(欢迎继续联署)
独立中文笔会是国际笔会——世界上最悠久的人权组织和国际性文学组织的145个分会之一，致力于维护全球中文作家的言论和写作自由，维护世界各地因从事其专业工作而遭监禁、威胁、迫害或打压的作家和新闻工作者的权益。关于笔会致力于保护作家和维护言论自由的更多信息，请参见http://www.chinesepen.org。
联系人：
独立中文笔会张裕， secretariat@chinesepen.org, yuzhang08@live.se
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For Press Release
11 February 2009
A Joint Statement on the Sentence of Liu Xiaobo and Tan Zuoren
Today, three days before the Chinese Lunar New Year, the Beijing Municipal High People\’s Court upholds the first instance sentence against the appeal by Dr. Liu Xiaobo, one of the drafters of the Charter 08. We, the undersigned, strongly protest against and condemn such a perversive act defying world trends and opinions.
On Christmas Day last year, the Beijing Municipal Number One Intermediate People\’s Court severely sentenced Dr. Liu to eleven years imprisonment on the charge of \”inciting subversion of state power\” for a few sentences in the Charter 08 that he participated in drafting, and a few sentences in six articles he wrote several years ago. This has made a record of maximum penalty for this offence since its inclusion in the Criminal Code in 1997, which marks the beginning of the darkest and coldest winter of China’s contemporary literary inquisition in the last 30 years since the \”spring of reform and opening-up\”. Two days ago, the Chengdu Municipal Intermediate People\’s Court in Sichuan Province, sentenced Tan Zuoren, an environmentalist, to five years imprisonment on the same charge just for a long memo based on his dairy on June Fourth Event in 1989, setting up a new record of even severer sentencing per piece of publication than that of Liu’s case. This indicates that the situation of freedom of expression in China continues to deteriorate as the winter continues to become colder and darker.
However, we firmly believe that the world trends are irresistible and that the public opinions cannot be ignored for long. When winter has come, can spring be far behind? Light is there at the end of darkness.
The former President of Czech Republic Mr. Vaclav Havel, the former Prime Minister Mr. Mikulas Dzurinda of Slovakia, The President of PEN American Centre Prof. Kwame Anthony Appiah, Nobel Prize laureates Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Dalai Lama and Ms. Herta Müller, and more and more statesmen, legislators, academics, professors, writers, human rights activists and other celebrities have announced their nomination of and support to Dr. Liu Xiao for the Nobel Peace Prize, which has got tens of thousands of the respondents, representing marks the irresistible warmth and bright in this darkest and coldest winter.
Therefore, we call on the international community to continue urging the Chinese authorities to recognize world trends, comply with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights to which China is a signatory, and immediately and unconditionally release Liu Xiaobo, Tan Zuoren and all others imprisoned for their opinions of conscience.
Cosigned by organizations:
Independent Chinese PEN Center
Hong Kong Journalists Association
Beijing Spring
The Qi’s Cultural Foundation
Princeton China Initiative
Support Network for the Persecuted in China
Hong Kong Chinese PEN
Laogai Research Foundation
China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group
South African PEN
Trieste PEN
Sierra Leone PEN
Hong Kong Alliance In Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China
Justice and Peace Commission of the Hong Kong Catholic Diocese
Hong Kong Professional Teachers’ Union
Croatian PEN
Catalan PEN
China Risk Citizen Foundation
Swedish PEN
Norwegian PEN
Suisse Romande PEN
German PEN
and by individuals:
Joanne Leedom-Ackerman, Vice President of International PEN
Eugene Schoulgin, international secretary of International PEN and past chairman of its Writers in Prison Committee
Dr. Karin Clark, former chairperson of Writers-in-Prison Committee of International PEN and German writer
Marian Botsford Fraser, chairperson of Writers-in-Prison Committee of International PEN and the former President of PEN Canada
Chaim Noll, German-Israeli writer born in former GDR
(more to join)
For more information, contact
Dr. Yu Zhang
Executive Secretary and WiPC Coordinator
Independent Chinese PEN Center (ICPC)
Tel: +46-8-50022792
Email: secretariat@chinesepen.org, yuzhang08@live.se
