【新唐人2014年09月23日讯】今年11月，美国总统欧巴马将赴北京参加亚太经合组织的首脑会议。日前，美国副国务卿萨拉•休厄尔已经做出承诺，届时欧巴马将直接向中共当局提出释放政治犯的要求，其中包括一直受迫害的大陆著名维权律师高智晟。大陆和海外的民主人士对此都表示一致欢迎，请看详细报导。
自由亚洲电台19号报导，美国副国务卿休厄尔18号在国务院会见了多名中国良心犯的家属。休厄尔承诺，美国总统欧巴马11月访问中国时，将向中共当局提出释放政治犯的问题。
休厄尔还说，美国政府已向中共提出，如果允许维权律师高智晟近期就到美国来看病，并且和家人团聚的话，亚太经合组织的会议将在一个更好的气氛下召开。
对美国副国务卿的这一承诺，六四民运人士方政表示期待。方政本人也是由旧金山华人“人道中国”组织救助到美国的。
六四受害者方政：“我们其实一直有这种希望和愿望吧，希望美国政府能够向中国政府正式的提出释放在押的所有政治犯，尤其是像这些具有代表性的，像高智晟，希望他能够得到真正的自由。这些民主的西方国家他还是崇尚一个基本的普世价值，从道义上他们也是负有责任的。”
当天，与美国副国务卿等官员会面的大陆良心犯家属代表有：高智晟的女儿耿格；王炳章的女儿王天安；刘贤斌的女儿陈桥；张少杰牧师的女儿张慧馨；常伯阳律师太太邓桂琴和女儿常若羽。还有两名藏族政治犯的代表，以及陈克贵的父亲陈光福和叔叔陈光诚。
在这些美国要求中共释放的政治犯中，近期备受关注的是大陆著名维权律师高智晟。高智晟在8月7号被被新疆沙雅监狱释放，但是出狱后仍然受到当局的严密监控。
大陆人权活动家胡佳：“高智晟律师他刚刚从牢狱中出来，然后却又进入一个家狱的状态，而且他的家人也跟着一起得要陪绑。他连最基本人道的这些待遇，就是说我们还别说前往美国，就是他到北京来治疗这件事情，现在都是不乐观。”
出狱后，高智晟告诉家人，他一个人被关在黑房里五年，每天只有一个馒头一碗白菜。刚出狱时，他不习惯见阳光，脸色苍白，不太会说话。他的妻子耿和说，身高178的高智晟，体重从原来的160斤瘦到了125斤。
六四受害者方政：“大家都知道高智晟在国内所遭受的这种政治迫害，那是骇人听闻的。就是因为高智晟所做的这些事，尤其是对法轮功问题，可以说是率先向中共直接提出这么一种挑战，这个就非常具有象征意义，这也是中共对他残酷打压的重要原因。”
高智晟曾亲自调查法轮功学员受到的人权迫害，并向中共当局发出三封公开信，揭露真实情况。他还公开宣布退党，此后他长年遭到中共政法委警察的监视和骚扰，一直到入狱。
大陆人权活动家胡佳：“我是很期待美国方面能把这18个政治犯（营救出去），这18个政治犯确实很有代表性。这些政治犯其实从法律的角度去衡量，全部是无辜的。全世界范围内，联合国系统到各个双边和多边的国别系统，每一次见到中共，都应该提出类似的交涉，光是美国是不够的。”
美国众议院外交委员会资深共和党议员史密斯（Chris Smith）最近公开呼吁，美国在这个问题上以不公开的、礼貌的外交手段是不凑效的，他希望欧巴马政府釆用新的思维，包括会见中国政治犯的女儿们。
史密斯还推出了2014年中国人权保护法案，即：美国政府对任何有违反人权行为的中共官员拒绝发出入境签证，并冻结他们在美国的财产。
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Obama Will Seek Release of Prisoners of Conscience
President Obama will attend Beijing APEC
(Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) summit this November.
State Department’s Under Secretary Sarah Sewall made a
commitment, Obama will directly seek the release
of political prisoners from the Chinese authorities,
including well-known human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng.
Democratic activists have expressed their unanimous
welcome to this move.
Radio Free Asia reported on the 19th, Under Secretary Sewall
met with the Chinese families of prisoners of conscience
on the 18th at the State Department.
Sewall promised President Barack Obama will request
the Chinese authorities to release political prisoners
in his visit to China in November.
Accordingly, Sewall indicated that Washington has proposed
to allow Gao Zhisheng medical care in the U.S. and to unite
with his family in China to ensure a smooth APEC atmosphere.
Fang Zheng expresses his expectation towards the Under
Secretary’s promise.
Fang Zheng was an activist during the 1989 student
pro-democracy movement.
He was rescued to the United States through the help
of Humanitarian China.
Fang Zheng: “We have been hoping and wishing the U.S.
government will officially request release of all political prisoners,
especially those who are representatives of those victimized,
such as Gao Zhisheng.
I hope he will receive true freedom.
The universal values these democratic Western countries uphold
entitle them to the moral responsibility."
Also present in the meeting at the State Department were
representatives of families of the prisoners of conscience:
“Grace" Ge Geng, daughter of Gao Zhisheng,
Ti-Anna Wang, daughter of Wang Bingzhang,
Liu Xianbin’s daughter Bridgette Chen,
“Esther" Huixin Zhang, daughter of pastor, Zhang Shaojie,
daughter and wife of rights lawyer Chang Boyang,
two representatives of Tibetan prisoners of conscience,
and Chen Kegui’s father Chen Guangfu and uncle Chen Guangcheng
The prominent human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng was one
of those who were concerned.
Gao Zhisheng was released from Shaya prison in Xinjiang
on Aug. 7, but still subject to close monitoring by the authorities.
Human rights activist Hu Jia: “Gao Zhisheng has just come
out of a jail and entered a home prison.
His families are tied with his home imprisonment.
He has not received even the most basic humane treatment
such as medical in Beijing, not to mention go to the US."
Prior to his release, Gao Zhisheng had been kept in a dark cell
alone for 5 years with just one steamed bun
and a bowl of cabbage a day.
Upon release, he was not used to the day light, he was pale
and could not talk smoothly.
His wife, Geng He said that Gao, 178-cm height,
weighed only 137 pounds.
Fang Zheng: “We all know that Gao Zhisheng has endured
appalling persecution in China.
He was the first who challenged the regime
about the persecution against Falun Gong.
His symbolic move has brought him the brutal suppression."
After personal investigation into the persecution of Falun Gong
practitioners, Gao Zhisheng had issued three open letters
to the Communist authorities to reveal the true situation.
He also publicly announced to quit the party.
Since then, he has been subject to surveillance
and harassment for many years by the CCP
Politics and Law Commission until his imprisonment.
Hu Jia: “I am really looking forward to the United States
rescue of the 18 political prisoners.
They are indeed the representatives of the political persecution.
They are innocent from a legal perspective.
The entire world, including the UN and individual countries,
should all raise this issue with the Communist regime.
It is not enough to rely on just the United States alone."
Rep. Chris Smith (NJ-04), head of the global human rights
subcommittee in the House of Representatives,
and co-chairman of the U.S. Commission on China,
has indicated that private and polite diplomacy is not effective.
He hopes the Obama administration will include the use of
new thinking, including meeting with daughters
of political prisoners.
Rep. Smith also promoted the China Human Rights Protection
Act of 2014, HR 5379.
The bill includes prohibition on entry and admission to the
United States and blocking of the property in the United States
of human rights perpetrators in China.
Interview & Edit/TangYin Post-Production/GeLei
