Ren Wanding

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Ren Wanding

Ren Wanding (* 1944 in Jiangxi Province ) is a Chinese dissident who has been jailed several times for his pro-democracy activism. Ren is the founder of the China Human Rights League. Ren was reportedly arrested and publicly humiliated in 1969, at the time of the Cultural Revolution in China , as a "traitor to the fatherland" and "anti-revolutionary".

Ren was a professional accountant and one of the leaders of the Democratic Movement Wall 1978–1979. Ren was detained without charge from 1979 to 1983, including 12 months in solitary confinement.

Life

1978 to 1988

In 1978 Ren Wanding joined the democracy movement and at the beginning of 1979 he founded the “Chinese Alliance for Human Rights” and the independent newspaper “Human Rights in China”. Together with other activists, Ren proclaimed a "Chinese Manifesto for Human Rights" on the Wall of Democracy in 1979 , in which they called for civil rights .

In the late 1970s he was imprisoned for four years for participating in the "Wall of Democracy" movement. After his release in 1988, he broke his silence and published an essay in the foreign press commemorating the tenth anniversary of the democracy movement. When asked if he feared a second imprisonment, Ren replied, "I have had some very frightening experiences ... But China has no democracy, no human rights and the standard of living is too low, these are even more terrifying things." Ren demanded Foreigners only to help China if they improve their human rights.

1989 to 1996

In 1989 he was arrested again for delivering a speech at the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests . Ren was the only one of 71 dissidents arrested who persevered in court. He was sentenced to seven years in prison, leading Amnesty International to designate him as a prisoner of conscience. In 1992, Chinese authorities evicted Ren's wife and daughter from their home. In 1993, Ren reportedly suffered from untreated cataracts and severe hemorrhoids , prompting Amnesty International to issue a medical warning. While still in prison, he received the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award in 1994 . Ren was released in June 1996 after serving a full sentence.

Ren was released in 1996 after attempting to register the Democratic Party of China as a legal political party. However, police officers were stationed outside his home to prevent him from submitting the application. This incident caused a split in the leadership of the dissident movement when fellow dissident Xu Wenli established his own subdistrict of the Democratic Party of China to compete with the Rens. Ren said that Xu "rape the party" and would "step on others" in his ambition, while Xu called Ren a "weak person" who had renounced her right to lead the party.

2001 to 2007

In 2001, Ren endorsed China's successful bid for the 2008 Summer Olympics and said he hoped the event would strengthen the reform movement: “China needs to improve its human rights ... opposing the Olympics will not help achieve that goal In 2007, the Chinese authorities allowed him to visit Hong Kong . In support of the human rights movement in China, Ren gave several lectures in Hong Kong, Europe and the United States .

Private

Ren is married to Zhang Fengying and has one daughter.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Medical Letter Writing Action: People's Republic of China: Ren Wanding , Amnesty International, August 16, 1992, accessed August 8, 2017
  2. ↑ a b 1994: Ren Wanding, China , Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights, accessed August 8, 2017
  3. ↑ a b c d Ren Wanding, The Chinese Democracy Movement 1978 to 1981 - Memories of the Actors at the Time , University of Vienna, accessed on August 8, 2017
  4. ^ A b David Holley and Daniel Williams, Turmoil In China: The Struggle for Power: Arrest of Dissident in US Embassy Is Sought by China , Los Angeles Times, p. 2, June 12, 1989, accessed August 14, 2017
  5. ^ A b David Holley, Tian An Men Square Figures Sentenced: China: Student leader Wang Dan gets 4-year term. Officials claim he 'repented' and exposed others. Wave of trials is jailing many dissidents. The Los Angeles Times, January 27, 1991, accessed August 8, 2017
  6. ^ Nicholas D. Kristof, A Chinese Survivor Keeps Up the Attack , The New York Times. November 27, 1988. Retrieved August 8, 2017
  7. ↑ Chinese Dissident Refuses to Recant, Gets Seven Years , Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Associated Press, January 30, 1991, accessed August 8, 2017
  8. ↑ Sheryl WuDunn, Wife of Jailed China Dissident Is Left Homeless by Eviction , The New York Times, April 20, 1992, accessed August 8, 2017
  9. ↑ World News Briefs; China Releases Dissident After 7 Years in Prison , The New York Times, Reuters, June 10, 1996, accessed August 8, 2017
  10. ↑ World: Asia-Pacific, Chinese dissidents detained , BBC News, September 18, 1998, accessed August 8, 2017
  11. ↑ Veteran dissidents clash over leadership , Sun Journal, Associated Press, November 27, 1998, accessed August 8, 2017
  12. ↑ Matthew Forney, Beijing's Final Sprint , Time, July 16, 2001, accessed August 8, 2017
  13. ↑ Lindsay Beck, China allows veteran activist to visit Hong Kong , Reuters, April 10, 2007, accessed August 8, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Ren, Wanding
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese dissident (People's Republic of China)
DATE OF BIRTH September 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Jiangxi Province