WHAT:
PROTEST ON THE AUTHORITIES IN CHINA CALLING THE DEATH OF LI
WANGYANG A "SUICIDE".
PROTEST THE ARREST OF ZHOU ZHIRONG, INITIATOR OF THE ""Truth
Investigation Committee for the 'Suicide' of Li Wangyang"
DEMAND THE IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF ZHOU ZHIRONG
DEMAND THE GOVERNMENT OF THE PRC TO INVESTIGATE LI'S
DEATH
WHEN: MONDAY JUNE 11, 2012 7:30 P.M. - 8:30 P.M.
WHERE: CONSULATE OF THE PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF CHINA
434 SHATTO PLACE, LOS ANGELES, CA 90020
INFORMATION: ANN LAU 310-539-0234
or 310-433-0697
BACKGROUND:
LATEST INFORMATION ON ZHOU ZHIRONG:
On June 8, Zhou Zhirong, friend and fellow protestor with
Li Wangyang (see below) has been arrested.
Zhou has initiated the "Truth Investigation Committee
for the 'Suicide' of Li Wangyang".
A number of Li's relatives and friends are now in house
arrest.
Li's attorney is now incommunicado and feared to be in
house arrest as well.
INFORMATION ON LI WANGYANG:
Li Wangyang ,Chinese dissident labor rights activist,
Chairman of the Shaoyang Workers Autonomous Federation branch, was
jailed on June 9th 1989 for "counterrevolutionary propaganda and
incitement", after China's 1989 democracy protests in Tiananmen
Square. He had been jailed for 22 years and released last year but
kept under 24 hours surveillance in the hospital.
He became blind and deaf as a result of torture during his
incarceration and he suffered from many ailments and disease.
On June 2, an interview of him was shown on Hong Kong
television. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lClvj9J5m7E&feature=share
On June 6, he was found hanged in his hospital
room.
In checking out the video link above, one will question how
anyone who can barely support himself physically could have the
strength to hang himself. Besides, he needed to have extraordinary
mental strength to survive these years of torture. One begs the
question of "suicide" as claimed by the authorities of his death.
One must also remember that after Chen Guangcheng released a
video of his illegal house arrest, he and his wife were severely
beaten with the security bureau thugs wrapping a blanket around his
wife to beat her.