Senate debates

Tuesday, 16 June 2009

Human Rights: China

3:50 pm

Photo of Bob BrownBob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate—

(a)
remembers the thousands of people who were killed 20 years ago on 4 June 1989 in the Tiananmen Square massacre;
(b)
supports the pro-democracy and pro-human rights principles outlined in Charter 08, which has been written by prominent Chinese academics and activists; and
(c)
condemns the detention and interrogation of signatories to the Charter 08 by Chinese authorities, including the continued detention of acclaimed author Liu Xiaobo.

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