Chinese Government Responsible for the Death of Cao Shunli
I am very angry!!! My friend, Mrs. Cao, was
murdered by the Chinese Communist Party! China needs a revolution!
Chinese Government Responsible for the Death of Cao Shunli https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/node/25405
Front Line Defenders deeply regrets the death of Cao Shunli, 52, who has died from organ failure at a hospital in Beijing.
Front Line Defenders holds the Chinese Government accountable for her death and demands that the UN consider a sanction against China for knowingly and wilfully allowing her to die simply because she attempted to co-operate with the UN system.
She had been in detention for five months during which her health terminally declined through lack of medical treatment. Cao Shunli suffered from tuberculosis in both her lungs, cirrhosis of the liver and uterine fibroids.
Cao Shunli was disappeared on 14 September 2013 as she was preparing to board a flight to Switzerland to take part in a human rights training on UN mechanisms. Her detention by state security agents was only formally acknowledged on 28 September 2013, and she was not permitted to see her lawyer until 30 October 2013. At that time, Wang Yu, her lawyer, reported that Cao Shunli was extremely thin and had not received any medical attention in the detention centre.
Cao Shunli has been campaigning since 2008 for greater civil society involvement in China's drafting of its reports for the Universal Period Review (UPR) and of its National Human Rights Action Plans. In October 2012, Cao Shunli wrote to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to enquire about public participation in the drafting of the National Human Rights Report for China's UPR, which took place on 22 October 2013, and asked that the details be made public. The following month, the Ministry responded saying that some of the information she applied for was not suitable 'for public disclosure' due to the State Secrets law. Cao Shunli, along with a number of fellow human rights defenders, engaged in a number of sit-ins outside the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from June 2013 to demand greater participation in the UPR process. These protests were repeatedly broken up by police.
Front Line Defenders was honoured to have known about the work of Cao Shunli. At a side event, opened by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay in the Human Rights Council last Monday 10th, Front Line Defenders raised her case as an example of reprisals against Human Rights Defenders who co-operate with the UN.
"Cao Shunli was an honourable woman of exceptional bravery who took on the might of the Chinese government in her efforts to ensure that Chinese citizens had a voice in issues that affected them," said Mary Lawlor, Executive Director of Front Line Defenders.
On 16 October 2013, a group of United Nations independent rights experts, including the Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders, issued a press release regarding reprisals against human rights defenders, including Cao Shunli, for cooperation with the UN on the UPR process. Front Line Defenders also issued a report on the clampdown on 22 October 2013.
Chinese Government Responsible for the Death of Cao Shunli https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/node/25405
Front Line Defenders deeply regrets the death of Cao Shunli, 52, who has died from organ failure at a hospital in Beijing.
Front Line Defenders holds the Chinese Government accountable for her death and demands that the UN consider a sanction against China for knowingly and wilfully allowing her to die simply because she attempted to co-operate with the UN system.
She had been in detention for five months during which her health terminally declined through lack of medical treatment. Cao Shunli suffered from tuberculosis in both her lungs, cirrhosis of the liver and uterine fibroids.
Cao Shunli was disappeared on 14 September 2013 as she was preparing to board a flight to Switzerland to take part in a human rights training on UN mechanisms. Her detention by state security agents was only formally acknowledged on 28 September 2013, and she was not permitted to see her lawyer until 30 October 2013. At that time, Wang Yu, her lawyer, reported that Cao Shunli was extremely thin and had not received any medical attention in the detention centre.
Cao Shunli has been campaigning since 2008 for greater civil society involvement in China's drafting of its reports for the Universal Period Review (UPR) and of its National Human Rights Action Plans. In October 2012, Cao Shunli wrote to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to enquire about public participation in the drafting of the National Human Rights Report for China's UPR, which took place on 22 October 2013, and asked that the details be made public. The following month, the Ministry responded saying that some of the information she applied for was not suitable 'for public disclosure' due to the State Secrets law. Cao Shunli, along with a number of fellow human rights defenders, engaged in a number of sit-ins outside the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from June 2013 to demand greater participation in the UPR process. These protests were repeatedly broken up by police.
Front Line Defenders was honoured to have known about the work of Cao Shunli. At a side event, opened by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay in the Human Rights Council last Monday 10th, Front Line Defenders raised her case as an example of reprisals against Human Rights Defenders who co-operate with the UN.
"Cao Shunli was an honourable woman of exceptional bravery who took on the might of the Chinese government in her efforts to ensure that Chinese citizens had a voice in issues that affected them," said Mary Lawlor, Executive Director of Front Line Defenders.
On 16 October 2013, a group of United Nations independent rights experts, including the Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders, issued a press release regarding reprisals against human rights defenders, including Cao Shunli, for cooperation with the UN on the UPR process. Front Line Defenders also issued a report on the clampdown on 22 October 2013.
