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<事件 No.CHN010906>
No.3869 中国:シンガポールの新聞社の香港駐在記者が「スパイ罪」で刑期5年を言い渡されました。
(ジュネーブ発 9月1日)

 SOSトーチャー国際事務局は、中国における下記の状況に関して皆様の緊急の働きかけをお願いします。

<事件の概要>

 SOSトーチャー国際事務局は、シンガポールのストレーツ・タイムズ紙の香港駐在記者である程翔さんが刑期5年の判決を受けたという情報を入手しました。

 情報によると、香港とシンガポールの永住権を持つ英国籍の程翔さん(56歳)に2006年8月31日、北京第2中級人民法院が「スパイ罪」で5年の刑期を言い渡しました。また、資産のうち30万元(29,000ユーロ)の没収も命じました。

 程翔さんは以前、香港で中国政府寄りの「文匯報」紙に勤めていましたが、1989年6月の天安門事件に抗議して退職しました。彼はシンガポールのストレーツ・タイムズ紙の香港駐在主任特派員だった2005年4月22日に中国南部の広州ホテルで逮捕されました。程翔さんは故趙紫陽元共産党総書記に関する文書を入手しようとして、同地を訪れていたと言われています。

 2005年8月5日に当局は程翔さんが2000年から2005年3月にかけて「トップシークレット」情報を買い、それを台湾の情報機関に渡していたとして正式に起訴しました。

 2006年8月15日に始まった裁判は非公開で、わずか数時間で終わりました。その上、弁護士は証拠について知ることができませんでした。程翔さんの家族は控訴すると言っています。

 SOSトーチャー国際事務局はこの有罪判決を憂慮し、中国当局に対し、恣意的に拘禁されている程翔さんを釈放するよう呼びかけます。

 また国際事務局は、中国当局は、新設の国連人権理事会のメンバー国選出の際に中国が再確認した国際的な人権の責務を遵守するよう、要請します。

<行動要請>

 中国関係当局に以下の内容の要請をお願いします。

1.いかなる情況にあろうとも、程翔さんの心身の安全を保障すること。

2.程翔さんの拘禁は恣意的であるため、彼が速やかに釈放され、いかなる時も司法手続き上の権利が尊重されるよう保障すること。

3.国内法および国際人権基準に沿って、国内全土における人権尊重と基本的自由を保障すること。

<要請先>

胡錦濤主席:President Hu Jintao
      People’s Republic of China
      c/o Embassy of the People’s Republic of China
      2300 Connecticut Ave., NW, Washington, D.C.
      20008, USA
      Fax: +01 202 588-0032

法務大臣:Zhang Fusen Buzhang
     Minister of Justice of the People’s Republic of China
     Sifabu, 10 Chaoyangmen Nandajie, Chaoyangqu
     Beijingshi 100020, People’s Republic of China
Fax: +86 10 6529 2345

外務大臣:Li Zhaoxing Buzhang Waijiaobu
     Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China
     2 Chaoyangmen Nandajie, Beijingshi 100701
     People’s Republic of China
     Fax: +86 10 6588 2594, Email: ipc@fmprc.gov.cn

国連大使:Sha Zukang, Ambassador
     Permanent Mission of the People’s Republic of China
     Ch. De Surville, CP 85, 1213 Petit-Lancy 2 Suisse
     e-mail: mission.china@ties.itu.int, Fax : +41 22 793 70 14

中華人民共和国大使館
     Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Japan
     〒106-0046 港区元麻布3丁目4-33
     特命全権大使:王 毅 閣下


<手紙の例文>

例文を添付いたします。手紙を出されるときにご活用ください。

President Hu Jintao
People’s Republic of China
c/o Embassy of the People’s Republic of China
2300 Connecticut Ave., NW, Washington, D.C.
20008, USA
Dear President Hu-Jintao,

I would like to express my concern that Mr. Ching Cheong, a Hong Kong-based correspondent with Singapore’s Straits Times, was given a sentence of five years of prison on August 31, 2006. I would like to urge you the followings:

1) To guarantee, in all circumstances, the physical and psychological integrity of Mr. Ching Cheong;

2) To ensure that Mr. Ching Cheong be immediately released, as his detention is arbitrarym and that his procedural rights will be respected at all times;

3) To guarantee the respect of human rights and the fundamental freedoms throughout the country in accordance with national laws and international human rights standards.

I thank you for your attention to my request.

Yours truly,

<以下、原文>

Case CHN 010906
Sentencing / Arbitrary detention

Geneva, September 1, 2006

The International Secretariat of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) requests your URGENT intervention in the following situation in the People’s Republic of China.

Brief description of the situation:

The International Secretariat of OMCT has been informed about the sentencing of Mr. Ching Cheong, a Hong Kong-based correspondent with Singapore’s Straits Times newspaper, to five years of prison.

According to the information received, on August 31, 2006, Mr. Ching Cheong, a 56 year-old permanent resident of Hong Kong and Singapore, and a British passport holder, was sentenced to five years of prison for “spying” by the Beijing Intermediate People’s Court No. 2. The Court also ordered the seizure of 300,000 Yuan (29,000 euros) of his assets.

Mr. Ching had worked for Wen Wei Po, a pro-Beijing newspaper in Hong Kong, before resigning in protest after the Tiananmen Square massacre in June 1989. On April 22, 2005, while working as a chief China correspondent for Singapore’s Straits Time, Mr. Ching was arrested in a Guangzhou hotel in Southern China, where he had allegedly gone to collect a manuscript relating to late Chinese Party Secretary Zhao Ziyang.

On August 5, 2005, Mr. Ching was formally charged by authorities for buying “top secret” information and passing it on to Taiwanese intelligence services from 2000 to March 2005.

His trial, which opened on August 15, 2006, was held behind closed doors and lasted just a few hours. In addition, the defence counsel’s access to evidence was hampered. His family said that it will appeal the conviction.

The International Secretariat of OMCT expresses its deep concern about this sentencing, and calls upon the Chinese authorities to release Mr. Ching Cheong immediately, as his detention is arbitrary.

Furthermore, the International Secretariat of OMCT urges the Chinese authorities to conform with its international human rights obligations, commitments that were reaffirmed by China on the occasion of its election as a member of the new United Nations Human Rights Council.

Action requested:

Please write to the authorities in the People’s Republic of China urging them to:

i. Guarantee, in all circumstances, the physical and psychological integrity of Mr. Ching Cheong;

ii. Ensure that Mr. Ching Cheong be immediately released, as his detention is arbitrarym and that his procedural rights will be respected at all times;

iii. Guarantee the respect of human rights and the fundamental freedoms throughout the country in accordance with national laws and international human rights standards.


Addresses:

President Hu Jintao, People’s Republic of China, c/o Embassy of the People’s Republic of China; 2300 Connecticut Ave., NW, Washington, D.C., 20008, USA, Fax: +01 202 588-0032

President Hu Jintao, People’s Republic of China, c/o Permanent Mission of the People’s Republic of China, Chemin de Surville 11, Case postale 85, 1213 Petit-Lancy 2, Gen ve, Swtzerland, Fax: +41 22 7937014, E-mail: mission.china@ties.itu.int

Minister of Justice of the People’s Republic of China, Zhang Fusen Buzhang, Sifabu, 10 Chaoyangmen Nandajie, Chaoyangqu, Beijingshi 100020, People’s Republic of China, Fax: +86 10 6529 2345

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China, Li Zhaoxing Buzhang Waijiaobu, 2 Chaoyangmen Nandajie, Beijingshi 100701, People’s Republic of China, Fax: +86 10 6588 2594, Email: ipc@fmprc.gov.cn

Ambassador, Sha Zukang, Permanent Mission of the People’s Republic of China, Ch. De Surville, CP 85, 1213 Petit-Lancy 2, Suisse, e-mail: mission.china@ties.itu.int, Fax : +41 22 793 70 14

Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Brussels, Avenue de Tervuren, 463 1160 Auderghem, Belgium, Tel: + 32 2 663 30 10 / + 32 2 663 30 17 / +32 2 771 14 97 / +32 2 779 43 33; Fax: +32 2 762 99 66 / +32 2 779 28 95; Email: chinaemb_be@mfa.gov.cn

Please also write to the embassies of the People’s Republic of China in your respective country.

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Geneva, September 1, 2006