{"id":860,"date":"2014-05-26T01:18:53","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T01:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=860"},"modified":"2014-05-26T01:18:53","modified_gmt":"2014-05-26T01:18:53","slug":"25-years-after-tiananmenask-president-xi-jinping-to-implement-chinas-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/25-years-after-tiananmenask-president-xi-jinping-to-implement-chinas-constitution","title":{"rendered":"25 YEARS AFTER TIANANMEN:ASK PRESIDENT XI JINPING TO IMPLEMENT CHINA\u2019S CONSTITUTION !"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #444444;line-height: 1.7\">The \u201cChinese Spring,\u201d in which millions of demonstrators demanded freedom and democracy, was crushed brutally by the army on 4 June 1989. Twenty-five years after the Tiananmen Square massacre, China\u2019s citizens are still denied fundamental freedoms,<!--more--> including freedom of information. The official media pump out their propaganda while all journalists are subject to strict censorship. Covering China\u2019s politics, economy and society independently is impossible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The authorities issue draconian directives to the media on dramatic events such as the attack at Kunming station, while the Communist Party has established a digital censorship system known as the \u201cElectronic Great Wall,\u201d which filters content that conflicts with the official line. China is ranked 175th out of 180 countries in the 2014 Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Index. Even this index was the subject of a propaganda bureau circular forbidding any reference to it.<\/p>\n<p>Dissidents, journalists and bloggers are being arrested in the run-up to the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Website contributor Xiang Nanfu was arrested for \u201cdisturbing public order\u201d on 3 May. After disappearing, the well-known dissident journalist Gao Yu was forced to make a \u201cpublic confession\u201d on central TV on 8 May in order to discredit her. Her crime? Providing foreign media with ideological documents that embarrassed the party. The government intends to turn the anniversary of the \u201cJune 4th incident\u201d into a triumph for censorship and an insult to freedom of information.<\/p>\n<p>Article 35 of the constitution says: \u201cCitizens of the People\u2019s Republic of China enjoy freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of procession and of demonstration.\u201d Article 41 says: \u201cCitizens have the right to make (&#8230;) complaints and charges against (&#8230;) any state organ or functionary (&#8230;) No one may suppress such complaints.\u201d Every day, the Chinese authorities and Communist Party ride roughshod over their own constitution.<\/p>\n<p>President Xi Jinping will continue to take the world for a ride as long as he does not apply his own country\u2019s constitution. By signing this petition, call for the release of journalists, bloggers and free speech activists detained in China, especially those held for having mentioned or participated in the 1989 pro-democracy movement. The rights of Chinese citizens that are guaranteed by the constitution must finally be respected!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From\u00a0http:\/\/rsf.org\/petitions\/tiananmen\/petition.php?lang=en<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cChinese Spring,\u201d in which millions  &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/25-years-after-tiananmenask-president-xi-jinping-to-implement-chinas-constitution\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,95],"tags":[94,101,103],"views":733,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":862,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions\/862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}