Please click here to read the article by Irwin Cotler and David Grossman
Please click here to read the article by Irwin Cotler and David Grossman
In an open letter to President Hu Jintao, Speaker 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, with a connection in Chicago. I was exhausted and hungry, but I hurried off the plane and through customs, as I wanted to get to Guangzhou as soon as possible. After picking up my [...]
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 [...]
I am posting the link for anyone who might be interested in listening to my first radio interview. It was with Michael Enright from CBC’s The Sunday Edition. The show aired on Feb. 10 in Canada and lasts about 18 minutes. Enjoy! http://www.cbc.ca/thesundayedition/listen_stream_feb.html
Congressmen Frank Wolf, Chris Smith and Senator Brownback signed a joint letter addressed to Secretary Clinton regarding the release of our father. We hope that this letter will help raise the visibility of my father’s case in the new administration. Please click here to read the letter.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/09/AR2009010903166.html
Dear Readers,
My father’s birthday is on February 6th and he will be turning 61-years old. I would like to launch a birthday card writing campaign and invite everyone to participate by sending out cards with short messages to him. These simple gestures not only mean a lot to my father, but I believe that they [...]
My uncle went to visit my father (his younger brother) on December 25th, 2008. My uncle said that my father was in better health and spirit as the allergies that plague him every fall have subsided. My uncle continues to worry about my father’s psychological health as he is becomingly increasingly anxious to be released. [...]
US Congress members Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Chris Smith and Frank Wolf and other NGO leaders called for the release of Dr. Wang during a press conference held on Dec. 10 in commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The conference corresponded with the return of Ti-Anna from her trip to China to [...]
I went to visit my father on Nov. 21. To give a little background, my father’s sentence allows for only one 30 minute a month. The routine is that a visitation notice comes by mail informing us the date of the next visit and who are allowed to visit. As my whole family live in North America, [...]
Hans is expecting his first child with his wife, Judy. We hope that Hans and Judy will have healthy and joyful pregnancy. The baby is due in May so we hope that our father will be released in time to be by the side of his eldest son to welcome his grandchild into the world. Let us [...]