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加拿大六位前部長公開信，要求釋放被判入獄的中國持不同政見者
（機器翻譯，英文為準）
渥太華
2020年9月15日發布
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在1998年2月6日的檔案照片中可以看到王炳章。
六位加拿大前司法和外交大臣寫了一封公開信，敦促中國立即釋放生病的持不同政見者，並允許他返回加拿大與家人同住。
在麥吉爾大學醫學院就讀的人權倡導者王炳章在中國秘密警察於2002年在越南綁架他並將其偷運到中國後，在中國監獄裏苦苦掙紮了18年。監獄生活被單獨監禁。
在給中國外交部長王毅的信中，加拿大的六位前部長說，王醫生遭受了三次令人衰弱的中風，並且被拒絕與住在加拿大的家庭成員接觸。
他們寫道：“他繼續患有其他慢性疾病，包括高血壓和深靜脈血栓形成，使他的生命處於極端危險之中，尤其是在COVID-19大流行期間。” “然而，他一直被拒絕與加拿大家庭成員接觸，其中大多數人被禁止進入中國。”
六位前司法部長安妮·麥克拉倫（Anne McLellan），歐文·科特勒（Irwin Cotler）和艾倫·洛克（Allan Rock）以及前外交部長勞埃德·阿沃西（Lloyd Aworthy），勞倫斯·坎農（Lawrence Cannon）和安德烈·歐勒萊特（Andre Ouellet）要求立即釋放王博士，“以免他不必要和不法的苦難消失，他可能會在加拿大與家人度過餘生。”
他們還敦促北京向王醫生的家人提供他的病曆，以便可以對他的照顧進行獨立評估，並取消限製他的家人離開中國的限製。
王博士是中國公民，但他的許多直係家庭成員，包括他的弟弟，妻子和孩子，都是加拿大公民和居民。他的姐妹住在不列顛哥倫比亞省。
加拿大前政治人物表示，王華博士-海外華僑民主運動的前領導人-在越南進行了為期僅半天的假審判，在越南被非法綁架，並被指控犯有間諜罪和恐怖主義罪。
六人說，有目擊者提供的新證據表明他們的證詞是錯誤的。
他們寫道：“在審判中，王醫生被剝奪了發表演講或出庭作證的機會，也沒有針對他提出任何可靠的證據或現場證人證詞。” “此外，現在有強有力的證據表明，針對王醫生的案子是偽造的。至少，大量令人信服的無罪證據要求進行新的審判。”
聯合國任意拘留問題工作組，人權觀察，大赦國際和拉烏爾·沃倫貝格人權中心等國際組織都表示反對王博士的監禁，稱其為武斷。
國會和美國國會通過了決議，呼籲中國釋放王醫生，並允許他返回加拿大。
中國駐渥太華大使館對公開信沒有立即回應。
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Six former Canadian ministers call for release of jailed Chinese dissident in open letter
OTTAWA
PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
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Wang Bingzhang is seen in a Feb. 6, 1998, file photo.
Six former Canadian justice and foreign affairs ministers have penned an open letter urging China to immediately release an ailing Chinese dissident and allow him to return to Canada to live with his family.
Wang Bingzhang, a human-rights advocate who studied at McGill University’s faculty of medicine, has been languishing in a Chinese prison for the past 18 years after Chinese secret police kidnapped him in Vietnam in 2002 and smuggled him to China, where he was sentenced to life in prison in solitary confinement.
In the letter to Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, the six former Canadian ministers say Dr. Wang has suffered three debilitating strokes and has been denied access to family members who live in Canada.
“He continues to suffer from other chronic diseases, including high blood pressure and deep vein thrombosis, putting his life at extreme risk, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic,” they wrote. “Yet he has consistently been denied access to Canadian family members, most of whom have been barred from entering China.”
The six – former justice ministers Anne McLellan, Irwin Cotler and Allan Rock and former foreign affairs ministers Lloyd Aworthy, Lawrence Cannon and Andre Ouellet – asked for the immediate release of Dr. Wang “so that his needless and wrongful suffering may end and that he may live out his remaining days with his family in Canada.”
They also urged Beijing to provide Dr. Wang’s family with his medical records, so an independent assessment can be made of his care, and to lift the restrictions that bar his family members from China.
Dr. Wang is a Chinese national, but many of his immediate family members, including his younger brother, his wife and children, are Canadian citizens and residents. His sisters live in British Columbia.
The former Canadian politicians say Dr. Wang – the former leader of the overseas Chinese democracy movement – was illegally abducted in Vietnam and convicted of trumped-up espionage and terrorism charges in a sham trial that lasted only half a day.
The six say there is new evidence from witnesses that their testimony was false.
“At trial, Dr. Wang was denied the opportunity to speak or present evidence, and no credible evidence or live witness testimony was presented against him,” they wrote. “Moreover there is now powerful evidence that the case against Dr. Wang was falsified. At the very least this mass of compelling exonerating evidence calls for a new trial.”
International organizations such as the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights have voiced their opposition to Dr. Wang’s imprisonment, calling it arbitrary.
Parliament and the U.S. Congress have passed resolutions calling on China to release Dr. Wang and allow him to return to Canada.
The Chinese embassy in Ottawa did not have an immediate response to the open letter.
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