<div dir="auto">Suggest draft text and which ones to replace.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 4 Aug 2019, 3:14 am farzaneh badii, <<a href="mailto:farzaneh.badii@gmail.com">farzaneh.badii@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div dir="auto">The first paragraph is almost a copy paste of the US statement. We can't just work on a "draft" that someone else has issued already. This needs to be redrafted from scratch should we want to issue a statement. </div></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Aug 3, 2019 at 9:33 PM "Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro" <<a href="mailto:governance@lists.riseup.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">governance@lists.riseup.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear All,</div><div><br></div><div>This revised draft captures some of Chaitanya and Ian's input and suggested edits. Please review and comment.</div><div><br></div><div>Revised Draft 4th August, 2019</div><div><br></div><div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Proposed Draft</b><span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif">The Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus is deeply concerned
by the sentencing of online activist Huang Qi to 12 years in prison.
Huang has been honoured multiple times by Reporters Without Borders for his
courage in exposing corruption and human rights violations in China through his
website, 64 Tianwang.<span></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"> Huang Qi has greatly strengthened China as
a country by bringing to the foreground these good governance issues including
but not limited to corruption & human rights. It is our view that Huang Qi
should be honoured as a strong contributor to society. <span></span></font></p></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif">We urge the Chinese government to uphold its international
commitments related to fair trial guarantees and the rule of law. We call
on China to immediately release Mr. Huang, and to allow him access to his
family, medical care, and legal counsel as soon as possible. We also call
on China to end undue restrictions on the freedom of movement of his family and
those who assisted him.<span></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif">We note that China is a member of the United Nations Human
Rights Council this year. The Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus calls on
China to aspire to subscribe to the Charter of the Internet Rights and
Principles which was developed by the Dynamic Coalition on Internet Rights and
Principles within the Internet Governance Forum and is available on the OHCHR
website. </font><span></span></p>
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</blockquote></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="m_6158417679616671963gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Farzaneh </font></div></div></div>
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