Hey Weifang
He Weifang ( Chinese 賀 衛 方 / 贺 卫 方 , Pinyin Hè Wèifāng , * 1960 in what was then Muping County, now Muping District ( 牟平 區 / 牟平 区 ) in Yantai City , Shandong Province , People's Republic of China ) is a professor of law at Peking University and Editor-in-chief of the specialist journal "Chinese and International Law" ( 中外 法學 / 中外 法学 , Zhōngwài Fǎxué ).
He studied from 1978 to 1982 Southwest China University of Politics and Law in Chongqing and received an LL.M. in 1985. at the Chinese University of Political Science and Law in Beijing , where he also taught after graduating. In 1995 he became a professor at Peking University. In 2005 he announced in an open letter that he would no longer teach legal history to masters and doctoral students in protest against the inadequate entrance examination . In 2008 he taught at the Guanghua Law School of Zhejiang University , but returned to Peking University for a short period in 2009 before being transferred to Shihezi University in Xinjiang for two years in March 2009 . While there is officially talk of "academic cooperation", other dissidents assume that this was done under political pressure.
He advocates a reform of the Chinese legal system and calls for greater independence of the judiciary and an improvement in the petition system. He also called for social reforms and even brought up the idea of dividing the Chinese Communist Party . Together with other lawyers, He appealed to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress to end "re-education through labor" in China. His reasoning is based on Article 37 of the Constitution of the People's Republic of China , which is intended to ensure the freedom of a person, as well as international treaties on human rights that China has signed. In December 2008, together with 302 other intellectuals, he supported the manifesto published on the Internet with demands for the realization of human rights in China ( Charter 08 ).
Web links
- Beijing Rundschau: Interview with He Weifang: The independence of the judiciary should be given priority
Individual evidence
- ↑ Open letter of June 24, 2005 (Chinese) ( Memento of November 19, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Translation of the open letter dated June 24, 2005 from Chinese into English ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ telegraph.co.uk: Leading dissident 'exiled' to Chinese northwest , March 12, 2009
- ↑ Beijing Rundschau via China Digital Times: Judicial Independence Should Come First ( Memento of May 28, 2006 in the Internet Archive ), November 2005
- ↑ USA Today : Reform debate in China intensifies , April 16, 2006
- ↑ danwei.org: Scholars and peasants vs. re-education through labor , December 5, 2007
- ↑ Platform of the network "Chinese Human Rights Defenders"
- ↑ Sven Hansen: China gets a "Charter 77". In: TAZ December 11, 2008
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hey, Weifang |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 贺 卫 方 |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chinese lawyer, professor of law at Peking University |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Muping County, Shandong, People's Republic of China |