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[Updated on June 9, 2009]On June 3, Executive Director John Kamm delivered a speech at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco before nearly 100 attendees entitled, “How Tiananmen Changed China,” twenty years after the June Fourth crackdown at Tiananmen Square brought an end to pro-democracy demonstrations. (Listen to or read the speech.) Touching on his work and the efforts of Dui Hua to help

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On Wednesday, June 3, Executive Director John Kamm will give a speech entitled, “How Tiananmen Changed China,” at the Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco. Kamm will speak exactly twenty years after the June Fourth crackdown at Tiananmen Square brought an end to pro-democracy demonstrations for which some participants are still imprisoned. He will examine how the Chinese government’s

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Liu Zhihua (刘智华), the last-known prisoner serving a sentence for "hooliganism" committed during the spring 1989 protests, was released in January 2009 from Loudi Prison (娄底监狱) in Hunan Province after receiving a two-year sentence reduction in December 2008, according to information received late last week from a reliable source in China.Liu, who was 24 years old at the time, was among a group of

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Based on newly obtained information, The Dui Hua Foundation now estimates that approximately 30 individuals are still serving sentences for offenses committed during the protests that took place in China in the spring of 1989. Dui Hua hopes the Chinese government will commute the sentences of these last remaining June Fourth prisoners.Dui Hua previously estimated that 50 to 60 June Fourth

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The Spring 2009 issue of Dui Hua's Dialogue newsletter has just been published. Leading off the newsletter is an article on the formation of US human rights policy toward China early in the Obama administration. It discusses complexities and questions about the human rights dialogue following remarks by US Secretary of State Clinton on working with China on major issues—the global financial

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On April 28, Executive Director John Kamm delivered a presentation to students at Yale University’s China Law Center. The presentation, "Issues and Cases: A Human Rights Dialogue with the Chinese Government," was the final installment in the Workshop on Chinese Legal Reform spring series.Kamm introduced Dui Hua’s history and work, and described the process of preparing and submitting prisoner

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In a March 6 talk sponsored by the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong, Executive Director John Kamm spoke about areas affecting US-China relations, including trade and economic conditions, the human rights dialogue with the Chinese government, and possible implications for China’s overseas image presented by the 60th Anniversary Special Pardon proposal under consideration in

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Using its special consultative status granted by the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), Dui Hua attended the first Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of China, which was convened by the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on February 9, 2009. Represented at the sessions by Senior Manager of Research and Hong Kong Operations Joshua Rosenzweig, Dui Hua last year submitted

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Executive Director John Kamm will discuss areas of cooperation and disagreement between the US and China at a luncheon on March 6, 2009, in Hong Kong. While the focus will be on possible changes in American human rights policy—much in the news following US Secretary of State Clinton’s recent visit to Beijing—Kamm will also touch on trade and the economic crisis as well as other issues, including

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On Thursday, February 12, Executive Director John Kamm will give a speech at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles, California. Free and open to the public, the focus of the talk will be Kamm's nearly two decades of work in conducting a human rights dialogue with Chinese officials. The event is being co-hosted by the USC US-China Institute and the Levan Institute for

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The Dui Hua Foundation wishes everyone a Happy Year of the Ox!对话基金会恭祝大家新春快乐！

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The Winter 2009 issue of Dui Hua's Dialogue newsletter has just been published. Its lead story focuses on the proposal that the Chinese government declare a special pardon of long-serving prisoners on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China on October 1, 1949. The proposal is currently being debated in China.Dui Hua's executive director, John Kamm,

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The Fall 2008 issue of Dui Hua's Dialogue newsletter has been published. The cover story is on the delegation from China’s Supreme People’s Court (SPC) that Dui Hua hosted on a study tour of the US juvenile justice system. While profiling the program activities, the article details areas of US-Sino exchange that Dui Hua is promoting as China sets out to establish its own system of juvenile

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A Chinese court in Beijing today executed a scientist accused of gathering military and political intelligence for Taiwan, The Dui Hua Foundation has confirmed from the man's relatives.Family members of Wo Weihan (沃维汉), a 60-year-old biomedical researcher and entrepreneur, were allowed to visit with him at the Beijing Number Two Intermediate People's Court for about thirty minutes on Thursday,

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Executive Director John Kamm will give a speech entitled, "China and Human Rights: One Man's Experience," in Santa Rosa, California, on Thursday, October 30, at 7 PM. Free and open to the public, this event is being co-sponsored by the United Nations Association Sonoma County Chapter, Sonoma Academy, and the League of Women Voters of Sonoma County. Please click here for directions to the

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From October 12 to October 23, 2008, The Dui Hua Foundation hosted the first-ever delegation from China’s Supreme People’s Court to study juvenile justice in the United States. The delegation, led by Senior Judge Hu Weixin, Deputy Director of the Supreme People’s Court Research Office, was made up of six judges from the Supreme People’s Court, the Political-Legal Institute under the Central

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The Summer 2008 issue of Dui Hua's Dialogue newsletter has been published. The lead story explores China’s human rights situation after the Sichuan earthquake and discusses a more long-term outlook on the development of human rights and reforms in China. Appearing alongside is a profile on the July release on parole of US citizen and businessman Jude Shao, which followed the long-awaited

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[Edited 7/24/08]On Tuesday, July 22, the award-winning Kulturzeit, a daily program on cultural issues broadcast by the German public television network 3sat, aired a profile on Dui Hua Executive Director John Kamm's work with the foundation in promoting human rights in China. The program is part of the network's multi-segment series on China. Kulturzeit appears on the leading public service

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The Dui Hua Foundation welcomes the parole of Jude Shao (邵裘德), an American businessman who has been serving a 16-year sentence for fraud and tax evasion in Qingpu Prison in Shanghai. Shao, a US citizen, was arrested in April 1998 and subsequently sentenced in March 2000 by the Shanghai Number One Intermediate People's Court, the same court that granted his parole. He is residing with his family

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Dui Hua’s Manager of Research and Hong Kong Operations Joshua Rosenzweig took part in a session at the Sixth Annual Chinese Internet Research Conference, held on June 13 and 14 in Hong Kong. Entitled "China and the Internet: Myths and Realities," the conference brought together scholars, policy analysts, industry leaders, journalists, and legal practitioners to discuss a wide variety of aspects

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The Spring 2008 issue of Dui Hua's newsletter, Dialogue, has been published. In this current issue, the cover article presents the idea that Beijing grant an “Olympic Pardon” to some long-serving prisoners in order to improve China's international image prior to the Summer Games. Accompanying the article are profiles of some individuals imprisoned during pro-democracy protests in 1989—the kind of

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“The Chinese people are in a state of mourning” – Dui Hua Executive Director John Kamm, The New York Times, May 22, 2008The Dui Hua Foundation urges site visitors to contribute to the relief of the victims of the recent earthquake in Sichuan Province, centered in Wenchuan County.The US Department of State has established a web page that lists and links to many US-based organizations aiding relief

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(中文译文在英文声明后 / A Chinese translation of this statement follows the English version)The Dui Hua Foundation has appealed to the Chinese government to grant an "Olympic pardon" in conjunction with the upcoming Summer Olympics in Beijing. The pardon would apply to long-serving prisoners who no longer pose a threat to society and are nearing the end of their sentences.The appeal for the special pardon

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[Edited 3/29/08]Publish Postize:100%;">Executive Director John Kamm was the Awards Ceremony Guest Speaker for the 12th Annual Human Rights Press Awards at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Hong Kong on March 29. Kamm's speech, "China's June Fourth Prisoners: The Long Road to Justice," addressed the cases of individuals detained in the “counterrevolutionary riots" that occurred throughout

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Chinese arrests for "endangering state security" (ESS) rose again in 2007 to their highest level in eight years, according to statistics announced by a senior Chinese law enforcement official on March 10. The increase in Chinese political arrests follows a doubling of such arrests in 2006 over 2005.In delivering the Supreme People's Procuratorate's annual work report to the National People's

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