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2010-01-13 - Appeal To The Sports World With Support
2010-01-13 - Appeal To The Sports World With Support
Chateau de Vidy
Case postale 356
1001 Lausanne
Switzerland
It is a great honour for a country to be host for the Olympic Games. This honour
includes the entitled expectation of the world community to fulfill basic standards not
only in the realm of sport but also in the realm of human rights. The reason for the
international sport association to give the assent to China to carry out the Olympic
Games in 2008 was to motivate China to improve the situation of human rights in
their country.
The reality of the dictatorship caught up with the reality of the sports world. In the end
the world wide attention of the games 2008 merely served the legitimating of a brutal
and human rights despising politic.
In a show trial the Chinese Dissident Liu Xiaobo got condemned to 11 years of
prison. Liu Xiaobo tried to support in the internet democracy and freedom of opinion
and is co-author of the political appeal “Charta 08”.
Due to the participation in the Olympic Games 2008 we see the representatives of
the sports in a special responsibility. The point is not to discuss a political matter of
dispute, but far more the ensuring of humaneness and elementary basic rights.
That fore, we ask all the participants of the Olympic Games 2008 to turn
directly and personally to the Chinese leadership and ask for the
unconditioned release of Liu Xiaobo. We ask all the sports man, specifically the
once who won medals, not to keep quiet.
We ask trainers, functionaries of sport and the national Olympic committee as
well, to follow our request.
We ask the German Olympic Sport Association and the International Olympic
Committee to support our request and to send this letter to all the national
Olympic Committees and trainers of the Olympic Games in Peking.
Yours Sincerely
Appeals to the release of Liu Xiaobo can be directed to:
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