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SMHRIC Jan 14, 2011 New York
Below is a sample letter to President Obama suggested by the
Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center, urging the White
House to bring the case of Hada and his family to the attention of
Chinese President Hu Jintao during his upcoming visit to Washington
D.C.:
January xx, 2011
The White House (by Fax 202-456-2461)
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Dear President Obama,
My name is [Your Name], a resident of [Your Town, State]. The
purpose of my letter is to bring to your attention my concerns about
an extreme human rights violation in China as heinous as the
imprisonment of the Nobel Prize winner Liu Xiaobo. It is the story
of a prominent ethnic Mongolian dissident who spent 15 years in a
Chinese prison on baseless charges of ¡°separatism¡± and ¡°espionage¡±
and then was immediately taken into detention on his scheduled
release day. Equally disturbing is that his wife and son were taken
into police custody the week prior to his release date. Since
December 18, 2010 there has been a virtual black out of information
about their whereabouts or conditions because the authorities have
imposed a curtain of silence around their friends and relatives.
This is particularly concerning since both Mr. Hada and his wife are
ill.
Mr. Hada, an ethnic Mongol scholar, founded the Southern Mongolian
Democratic Alliance (SMDA) to promote Mongolian culture and ethnic
identity among the Mongols in China, and to advocate Southern
Mongolian democracy and human rights. Although the activities of the
SMDA were completely in keeping with the laws of China, Mr. Hada was
accused of trumped up charges related to ¡®splittism¡¯ and sentenced
to an exceptionally long jail term. He suffered unbearably inhumane
treatment in prison. Following Mr. Hada¡¯s imprisonment, his
family-run book shop was forcibly closed several times by Chinese
authorities and his wife and son were frequently harassed and
interrogated. His son had to drop out from high school to struggle
for a living. The family was supposed to have been reunited after
this long traumatic separation on December 10, 2010 however as of
today, more than a month following his scheduled release, there is
no news regarding the whereabouts of the family. Details regarding
events over the past month are available on the website of the
Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center (www.smhric.org)
as well as articles in the electronic New York Times (www.nytimes.com/2010/12/14/world/asia/14china.html)
and the Amnesty International website (www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/ASA17/001/2011/en).
Mr. President, I know you share my concerns about human rights and
if you knew the details of this case, you would be as concerned
about Mr. Hada, his wife Xinna and son Uiles as I am and therefore I
would like to ask that you help find effective channels of
communication to the government of China to free Mr. Hada and his
family. I urge you to intercede on their behalf and ask President Hu
Jintao directly on his upcoming visit to Washington for information
about Mr. Hada and his family and to release them on humanitarian
grounds. For this, I would be very grateful as would so many other
persecuted people within the borders of China who have no voice to
speak freely on their own behalf.
Sincerely yours,
[Your name and address]
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