Qin Yongmin

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Qin Yongmin ( Chinese  秦永敏 , Pinyin Qín Yǒngmǐn ; born August 11, 1953 in Wuhan ) is a political reporter , human rights activist , dissident , one of the co-founders of the Democratic Party of China and one of the most famous political prisoners in the People's Republic of China .

Because he insisted on his belief that China should enjoy freedom of speech, publication and association, as well as all basic human rights, including organizing a political party, he was summoned to court, expropriated, re-educated through labor, and arrested , sentenced to prison and monitored in his home. From 1970 to 2012 he was arrested a total of 39 times and sentenced to 22 years in prison. He is one of the political prisoners who have been incarcerated the longest in the past four decades. He refused to go abroad until the People's Republic of China became a constitutional democracy and he insisted on serving his sentences.

Life

Qin Yongmin was a worker with the Wuhan Steel Corporation . At the end of the 1970s he edited and published the magazine Zhongsheng ( 钟声 ) in Wuhan , the “bell”, which had the declared aim of promoting democracy. In 1980 he participated in the establishment of the "Preparatory Group of the Democratic Party of China". He was arrested in 1981 and sentenced to eight years in prison for his so-called counter - revolutionary propaganda and incitement to unrest. In 1989 he was released from prison. He was the author of the "Peace Statute " ( 和平 宪章 ) - the first program since 1949 for a democracy movement in China, which was published on January 14, 1993. It called for compensation for the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen massacre and for the release of political prisoners. He was subsequently charged with "disrupting social order" and sentenced to two years of re-education through work.

In 1997, Qin Yongmin published an open letter to Jiang Zemin calling on the Chinese Communist Party to carry out political reforms in China and achieve constitutional democracy. In 1998 he founded the "Human Rights Observer Group in China" ( 中国 人权 观察 ) in Wuhan and published hundreds of reports addressing the reality of human rights in the People's Republic of China . In the same year, Qin Yongmin publicly initiated and established the Hubei Provincial Democratic Party Committee. He was subsequently arrested and sentenced to 12 years in prison for undermining state authority. Qin Yongmin was elected one of the four co-chairs of the Democratic Party of China in 1999 while he was still in prison. Also in 1999, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights nominated DPC members Xu Wenli , Qin Yongmin and Wang Youcai for the Nobel Peace Prize .

Qin Yongmin was released from prison in November 2010. He continued to campaign for democracy and human rights in the People's Republic of China and was illegally arrested several times.

In July 2018, almost at the same time as Liu Xia , Liu Xiaobo's widow , left for Berlin, Qin Yongmin was sentenced to 13 years in prison.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 中国 当代 五位 知名 的 "政治犯" Deutsche Welle , accessed on September 12, 2017.
  2. ↑ 秦永敏 获释 ， 拘留所 里 度 春节 VOA , accessed on September 12, 2017.
  3. ↑ 《和平 宪章》 (第二 版本) Beijing Spring , accessed September 12, 2017.
  4. ↑ a b 中国 民主党 创建 人 秦永敏 刑满 出狱 BBC , accessed September 12, 2017.
  5. ^ Mackerras Colin: The New Cambridge Handbook of Contemporary China. 2001, ISBN 0-521-78674-6 .
  6. ↑ Beijing interrupt Nobel Peace Prize committee, because it was angry about the upcoming award may be given to a Chinese dissident. Taiwantt.org , accessed September 12, 2017.
  7. ↑ "美国之音 ： 武汉 秦永敏 被 失踪 月余 律师 控 公安 侵害 公民权" VOA , accessed on September 12, 2017.
  8. ↑ nto./dpa: Civil rights activist Qin Yongming sentenced to 13 years in prison. In: FAZ.net . July 11, 2018, accessed October 13, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Qin, Yongmin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 秦永敏 (Chinese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese dissident
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuhan , People's Republic of China