Liu Gang and Human Rights Session at AAAS Meeting in February

[David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>]

Date: Wed, 08 Dec 1993 12:58:25 PST
From: Morey Schapira (via RadioMail) <morey () radiomail net>


Subject: Liu Gang and Human Rights Session at AAAS Meeting in February
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Subject: Liu Gang and Human Rights Session at AAAS Meeting in February


I am writing to all members of ACSSS to inform you of that there will be
a session on "Scientists and Human Rights: Activists, Victims, and
Advocates" at the annual meeting of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science (AAAS) in San Francisco on February 22, 1993,
8:30-11:30 AM at the San Francisco Hilton Hotel.  I will be chairing this
session and have helped to arrange speakers.


You may be particularly interested in the invitation we have extended to
Liu Gang, the physics graduate student who has been imprisoned and
reportedly tortured and in ill health since the Tien An Min massacre in
1989, to speak at this session.  Copies of this letter of invitation have
been sent to several Chinese authorities.


Since we do not expect him to be released to come here for this meeting,
a petition for his release will be circulated at the meeting.  We are
seeking help in collecting signatures on this petition.  If you would be
willing to spend a couple of hours at a table at which these petitions will
be located, please let me know or contact Dorothy Hirsch of the Committee of
Concerned Scientists (phone: 718-229-2813; FAX 718-224-0505).


Also, we have arranged for alternate speakers; Professor Fang Lizhi of the
University of Arizona and Richard Dicker of the Committee to End the
Chinese Gulag.  There will be four other speakers at this session,
including Professor Yuri Orlov of Cornell, who spent many years in prison
in the Soviet Union for his human rights activities.


More information, including registration forms, about this meeting can be
found in the November 19, 1993 issue of Science magazine on page 12 of the
insert on the AAAS meeting.  I hope that you will consider attending this
meeting and assisting with the petition on behalf of Liu Gang.


I would also appreciate it if you would forward this message to others
who may be interested or send me Email addresses of organizations like
ACSSS at other universities in the Bay area.


Sincerely,


Herman Winick
Past Chair, Committee on International Freedom of Scientists of the
American Physical Society
Professor (Research) SSRL/SLAC and Applied Physics Department




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