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An open letter for the Noble Peace Prize Chinese nominees

October 8th, 2008 · No Comments

10-08-2008 Initiatives for China
Contact: Jim Geheran Tel: 202-290-1423
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(photo: Mr. Hu Jia)

There are two Chinese activists that have been nominated as strong candidates of the Nobel Peace Prize this year. Although the government is not pleased with the nominations, the two candidates are: Mr. Hu Jia and Gao Zhisheng. Mr. Hu is a democracy and Aids activist and is also one of the most well-known of China’s imprisoned dissidents. He was convicted in April 2007 for inciting subversion, and is now serving a three-and-a-half-year jail sentence. The other nominee, Gao Zhisheng, is a writer and self-trained lawyer who defended Chinese citizens against the state, including members of the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement. He has disappeared since he was taken from his home in September 2007. The Prize is scheduled to be announced on this Friday in the Norwegian capital, Oslo. (Photo: Mr. Gao Zhisheng)

Initiatives for China (Gong ming li liang Movement) congratulates the two nominees and appreciates the concerns shown on behalf of the human rights condition in China by the Nobel Committee through the nominations. If either of the two brave men wins, the Prize will significantly promote peace and human rights in China.

Dr. Yang Jianli
All the members of Gong-min-li-liang Movment
10-08-2008

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Introduction to the Founder

Dr. Yang Jianli

Founder and President of Initiatives for China, Dr. Yang Jianli was born in Shandong Province in northern China. A graduate of Beijing Normal University, Dr. Yang holds a PhD. in Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley, and a PhD in Political Economy from the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government. In 1989, at the age of 26, his fellow graduate students at Berkeley selected him to go to Beijing in support of their counterparts in China who were demonstrating for democracy in Tiananmen Square. He arrived in Tiananmen Square in time to witness the massacre of thousands of peaceful demonstrators by the guns and tanks of the Chinese government. This event fundamentally changed young Jianli's future. He narrowly escaped capture and returned to the United States where he committed himself to studying democracy. Read more...