PROPER TREATMENT: The European Parliament called on China to ensure adequate medical care and regular, unrestricted visits by relatives and lawyers for detainees
Taipei Times
Date: Jan 20, 2018
By: Staff writer, with CNA, BRUSSELS
The European Parliament on Thursday passed a resolution calling for the Chinese
Taiwanese human rights advocate Lee Ming-che, left, stands during his trial at the Yueyang City Intermediate People’s Court in China’s Hunan Province on Nov. 28 last year. [Screengrab from the Yueyang City Intermediate People’s Court’s microblog]
It was the second time that it has called for Lee’s release. The first was in July last year after he had been detained in China for more than three months for alleged “subversion of state power.”
Since then, Lee has been convicted and sentenced to five years in prison and the deprivation of his political rights for two years.
In Thursday’s resolution, the European Parliament also addressed the cases of Chinese activists Wu Gan (吳淦) and Xie Yang (謝陽), as well as Tibetan activist Tashi Wangchuk and Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, who the Dalai Lama has named as the 11th Panchen Lama. [FULL STORY]
