And a letter
Rowland Heights resident Hongwei Lou, who I spoke to last month regarding objections about a Chinese Olympic float in the Rose Parade, sent an update about her husband's imprisonment in China:
Recently there are some new progress in rescuing my husband, Dongwei Bu, who is a staffer member of US aid organization and was arrested from home by Chinese authorities on 19 May 2006 because he is a Falun Gong practitioner.Eight congress members who are mainly from California cosigned a
letter which was sent to the labour camp to ask for Dongwei Bu's
release. There are four congresswomen of these eight congress members
who concern woman rights and human rights very much.
Dongwei Bu is a Chinese staffer from The Asia Foundation, a U.S. aid organization based in San Francisco. His duty is to provide legal assistance to immigrant workers in China. After three months of his arrest, Dongwei was sentenced to 2.5 years reeducation through labor (RTL) without trial and without access to counsel. He is in Beijing Tuanhe labour camp currently and forced to do hard labour everyday....
Actually my husband is a victim of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. Chinese
authorities are trying to put all the dissidents into prison ahead of
the Games and they call it "clean the city movement".I hope my husband will be released very soon because now there
arebvmany voices to boycott the Games. U.S. legislators introduced a
resolution recently calling for a boycott of the 2008 Olympics in
Beijing unless China makes drastic changes to its human rights
policies. Human rights activists also launch a global "human rights
torch relay" to highlight allegedly widespread human rights abuses in
China. This relay will arrive in US in March 2008.Best wishes,
Hongwei Lou
Here's the letter Hongwei is referring to.