Ti-Anna’s visa application to China has been denied again. I will apply for one this week to see where I stand. Last May, Ti-Anna went to China after several months of waiting for her visa, but was inexplicably turned back at the border, even with a valid visa.
Normally, a visa application to China is very [...]

Tune in tomorrow morning (Dec.3) at 7:15 am to CBC Radio One’s Daybreak with Nancy Woods to hear my hopes for Prime Minister Harper’s visit to China.

The Human Rights Working Group at McGill will be hosting an event at the Faculty of Law on November 18th to launch a campaign calling on the Canadian Government to support release Dr. Wang Bingzhang. This event comes at a crucial moment comes as Prime Minister Harper plans on visiting China on December 2nd. The goal [...]

The comments to the op-ed have been… colorful. I found myself compelled to answer some of the more cogent criticisms offered up – if they took the time to read and comment, I should take the time to respond.
My favorite Obama-bashing comment admonished that I have a distorted political vision, and that we deserve to [...]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2009/11/12/ST2009111210020.html?sid=ST2009111210020
First of all, let me just say that these past two weeks have been quite uplifting. Many people supported our letter-writing efforts at NYU, Duke and elsewhere.
Second, a big thank you to everybody who looked over the drafts of this piece and provided comments and suggestions. Some made it in, but some didn’t, including some [...]

One round of 40 some letters from fellow NYU Law students have been sent out today. Thank you to everyone who took the time to write a letter.

Friends and colleagues at Duke Law and elsewhere are also very supportive, and have taken it upon themselves to send the letters around their respective networks. It means a tremendous amount to us. Good karma be upon all of you!

In other news, law school responsibilities beckon…

http://www.charlatan.ca/drupal/content/daughters-mission-free-her-father

Last Monday, I visited my father in prison. Due to various problems members of our family have faced, from health to financial to political, nobody has been able to visit my father in several months, and he was running out of money.
Our visit was useful. I brought him quite a bit of money, and he [...]

Please click here to read the article by Irwin Cotler and David Grossman

In an open letter to President Hu Jintao, Speaker Nancy Pelosi calls for the immediate release of several prisoners of conscious. I am so grateful that she included my father on her list of concerned individuals. Please click here to read her remarks on the recent Tiananmen Square Resolution and her open letter. http://speaker.house.gov/newsroom/speeches?id=0193

I arrived at Hong Kong International Airport after a long flight that left from Montreal at 6 AM the previous day. Exhausted and hungry, I hurried off the plane and through customs so I could get to Guangzhou as soon as possible. After picking up my suitcase, I looked for a bus that would take [...]

Last week, after communicating with the Dalai Lama’s staff in New York, Times and I were invited to have a private audience with His Holiness. Because of his busy schedule during his stay in Boston and New York, we were asked to travel to Santa Barbara, CA to meet him. So we both flew, from [...]

Times’ representative, Congressman David Price, sent out this letter to Secretary Clinton after we both met Mr. Price at his office in Durham, NC.

The Honourable Irwin Cotler invited me to Ottawa to speak at an all-party press conference on April 2nd, 2009. He then proceeded to make this statement in the House of Commons regarding my father’s imprisonment. Professor Cotler and his staff have been so supportive of my father’s freedom and very involved in his release efforts in Ottawa. I would [...]

Please click here to read the article by Irwin Cotler and David Grossman in the National Post.

A joint letter from Congress addressed to President Obama was sent out last week, calling him to raise my father’s case with the President Hu Jintao tomorrow at the G20 meeting in London. Please click here to read the letter.

Canadian daughter of jailed Chinese dissident lobbies in U.S. for his release
Sunday, March 22, 2009
By Sidhartha Banerjee, The Canadian Press
MONTREAL — The Montreal daughter of one of the founders of the overseas Chinese democracy movement has not given up hope that she will see him released from a Chinese jail where he languishes due to [...]

A friend of our family gave us this footage of my father speaking to a small group of democracy activists many years ago. After adding English subtitles to it, I posted the video on Youtube. You can view it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhLn6Xk_mQY and hear the message that my father was trying spread.

I was able to visit my father on February 27 at 10 AM.  We were allowed to speak for half an hour, and upon request, we were granted an extra 10 minutes.
Since this was my first time seeing him since his imprisonment, my father and I spent a lot of time catching up with what [...]

My brother, Hans, recently came back from his first trip to China to visit our father. Due to difficulties obtaining his visa, his trip was delayed and shortened. He met with our father for 40 minutes where they were allowed to speak a little English (a diplomatic request by the Canadian Embassy in Guangzhou for [...]