Dr. Wang Bingzhang was abducted from Vietnam by the Chinese Communist Party in 2002 and sentenced to life imprisonment, where he has been held in solitary confinement for 22 years. He will turn 76 on December 28 this year. On the occasion of his birthday, Dr. Wang Bingzhang’s relatives, comrades, and friends will hold a symposium titled “Dr. Wang Bingzhang and China’s Democratization,” reviewing the profound impact of Dr. Wang’s decision to abandon medicine for politics and his pioneering act of raising the banner of China’s democratic revolution overseas, call on the international community to pay attention to the elderly Dr. Wang serving 22 years in China, call on the international community to rescue Dr. Wang Bingzhang from prison through various means, and urge the Chinese government to release elderly prisoners according to Chinese law.
The WangBingzhang Rescue Support Association cordially invites you to attend the seminar. Your participation is your contribution to Dr. Wang Bingzhang’s early release from prison.
Dr. Wang Bingzhang’s daughter, Wang Qingyan, and granddaughter Lele will attend the symposium.
Note: The Rescue Wang Bingzhang Support Association ran a large neon advertisement for Dr. Wang Bingzhang’s birthday in New York’s Times Square, broadcast from midnight to 11:59pm on December 28, 2024, with 30 seconds every hour throughout the day. During this time, friends are invited to Times Square to take photos as a memento, celebrating Dr. Wang Bingzhang’s birthday and supporting his early release.
From9:00 to 10:00 PM, the China Democratic Party and the China Democratic Unity Alliance will have 80-100 people in New York’s Times Square holding placards to support Dr. Wang Bingzhang.
Symposium time: December 28, 2024, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Venue: June 4th Memorial Hall
,Room 894, 6th Ave, 4FL
Manhattan
Rescue Dr. Wang Bingzhang
Support Association Contact:
Zhou Fengsuo (510) 371-2098
ChenLiqun (347) 399-1382
The global conference
in support of Dr. Wang Bing-Chang will be held at
times as follows:East Coast: December 28, 14:00-16:00;
US West: December 28, 11:00-13:00;
New Zealand: December 29, 8:00-10:00;
Sydney and Melbourne: December 29, 6:00-8:00
Tokyo, Japan: December 29, 4:00-6:00;
Republic of China and Hong Kong/Macau: December 29, 3:00-5:00;
Amsterdam and Paris: December 28, 20:00-22:00;
London, UK: December 28, 19:00-21:00.
Background: The China Democratic League was established, and Wang Bingzhang was elected as the first chairman
December 29, 1983, is a memorable day in the history of modern Chinese democracy movements. This day was also the day before Wang Bingzhang’s 36th birthday, marking the official establishment of the first official overseas pro-democracy organization, the China Democratic Unity Alliance (abbreviated as China Democratic League). This marked Wang Bingzhang’s remarkable success a year ago in abandoning medicine and the transition from a loose movement to a new stage of organizational formation.
From December 27 to December 30, 1983, the “China Spring Democracy Movement” held its first World Congress in New York, USA, with 53 delegates attending from the Americas, Europe, Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and mainland China. Wang Min delivered the opening speech, and Wang Bingzhang, representing the executive group of the preparatory committee, presented a work report.
On December 29, the congress passed the “Charter of the China Democratic Unity League,” officially renaming the “China Spring Democratic Movement” to the “China Democratic Unity Alliance,” and proposed “uniting all democratic forces (including the Kuomintang and Communist Party, as well as other parties) to fundamentally reform China’s current autocratic system and realize democracy, rule of law, freedom, and human rights.” The congress also elected Wang Bingzhang as the first chairman of the China Democratic Alliance.
Chen Xue, a representative of the First Congress of the China Democratic Federation, recalled: “The First Congress was held in a tight, tense, and enthusiastic atmosphere. The first day’s meeting was about to take place when the venue was suddenly relocated. The reason was that someone had called the police, saying it was a violent terrorist group holding a meeting and demanding police come to crack it down. So, the delegates immediately got up and moved to another venue. At the entrance of the venue, a burly Black man had been hired as the gatekeeper, which was quite interesting. The debates at the meeting were extremely intense, focusing on violent revolution and peaceful reform along the line, party politics and pressure groups at the organizational level, democracy and autocracy over work style, as well as personnel disputes and financial disputes.” (China Spring, Issue 116)
Committee for the Rescue of Wang Bingzhang
, December 12,
2024