国际笔会秘书长和狱中作家委员主席就“中国奥运”给全体笔会会员的信

（2008年8月5日） 
 

亲爱的朋友： 

北京奥运会即将于2008年8月8日开幕前三天，世界作家组织国际笔会注意到：

•44位作家和新闻工作者目前仍关在中国监狱里；

•未入狱的异议作家和新闻工作者面临针对其人身和自由言说及出版能力的严重限制；

•网络审查和其他诸如颠覆和煽动分离或分裂等法律被例行滥用于否定普遍保证的言论自由权。 

奥林匹克理念主张“体育运动国际性与民主的平等”。

奥林匹克运动的目标是“通过没有任何形式的歧视且体现友谊、团结和公平竞争精神的体育运动教育青年，为建设一个和平而更美好的世界做出贡献。”  

国际笔会因此追问：

拘捕作家和审查与民主如何一致？

压制报道如何推进平等与和平？

公平精神与审查并不兼容，压迫作家也无从推进建设一个和平而更美好的世界。 

国际笔会敦促中国政府确认其弘扬奥林匹克理念精神的承诺而做到： 

• 释放所有目前系狱的作家和新闻工作者，停止拘捕、骚扰和监视在中国的作家和新闻工作者；
• 终止网络审查，修改用于监禁作家和新闻工作者以及压制言论自由的法律；
• 遵守其“直到奥运期间对媒体报道和记者行动都没有限制”的承诺。

 

请用本邮件中的材料去游说中国各当局，提升对中国言论自由问题的宣传。 

敬礼 

尤金·舒尔金，国际笔会秘书长并代表国际笔会理事会

卡琳·克拉克，国际笔会狱中作家委员会主席 

附件：

• 中国焦点：作家行动呼吁
• 国际笔会关于中国言论自由的声明
• 给国际奥委会的样信
• 国际笔会诗歌接力新闻发布稿和新闻资料集（新闻发布稿补充：笔会诗歌接力组织者已接到通知，8月5日诗歌接力网站在中国大陆被封锁进入。）

 
 

 

5 August 2008 

Dear Friends,

Three days before the opening of the Olympic Games in Beijing on 8 August 2008, International PEN, the world association of writers, notes that:

• there are 44 writers and journalists currently held in Chinese prisons;
• dissident writers and journalists not in prison face serious restrictions on their movements and on their ability to speak and publish freely;
• Internet censorship and other laws such as subversion and inciting separatism or “splittism” are regularly used to deny the universally-guaranteed right to freedom of expression;

 

The Olympic ideal speaks of ‘equality of sports which are international and democratic’.

The goal of the Olympic movement is to ‘contribute to the building of a peaceful and better world by educating youth through sport, practiced without discrimination of any kind, in a spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair play.’

International PEN therefore asks:

How do arrests of writers and censorship tally with democracy?

How can suppression of reporting promote equality and peace?

Fair play and censorship are not compatible, nor does the repression of writers promote the building of a peaceful and better world.

International PEN urges the Chinese government to affirm its commitment to promoting the spirit of the Olympic ideal by:

• releasing all writers and journalists currently imprisoned and stop detaining, harassing, and censoring writers and journalists in China;
• end Internet censorship, and reform laws used to imprison writers and journalists and suppress freedom of expression;
• abide by its pledge that “there will be no restrictions on media reporting and movement of journalists up to and including the Olympic Games.”

Please use the material in this mailing to lobby the Chinese authorities and raise publicity on the issue of freedom of expression in China.

Sincerely,

Eugene Schoulgin, International Secretary, on behalf of the Board of International PEN.

Karin Clark, International PEN Writers in Prison Committee

Documents attached:

• China Focus: Writers Called to Action
• International PEN statement on freedom of expression in China
• Sample letter to the International Olympic Committee
• International PEN Poem Relay Newsletter, Press Release and Press Kit. [ADDENDUM TO PRESS RELEASE: Organisers of the PEN Poem Relay have been informed that as of 5 August, the PEN Poem Relay website has been blocked in mainland China.]