许志永

今天，2013年9月13日。中午十一点半，北京市公安局二十多个警察突然闯进王功权先生的住所，抄家两个小时之后，将他带走。晚上8点17分，警方宣布刑拘王功权先生，向他家人送达了刑拘通知书，涉嫌罪名是“扰乱公共场所秩序”。

我们认为，这是一个荒诞的指控，王功权先生不可能扰乱任何公共场所秩序。

王功权先生是新公民运动的坚定支持者，但他支持新公民运动的全部初衷，无非是通过和平、合法之途，来争取宪法规定的公民权利，通过争取公民权利的进程带动公民社会的成长，最终推动中国的和平转型，让我们的社会更多人性，更多自由与公义，更多爱与温暖。

这是王功权先生的价值观所注定的。他是一个真诚的佛教徒，一个彻底的人道主义者与和平主义者。柔软，善良，悲悯与责任，是他与生俱来的气质。他对这个世界、对所有人充满了善意。这样的人是应该受到善待的。但是，他得到的回报却如此野蛮。这不止是对王功权先生的不公，更是对所有人道主义者、所有和平主义者、所有对和平转型尚持一线希望的同胞的打击。所以，当这一刻来临，我们难掩震惊。

王功权先生秉持的，也是我们的方向，王功权先生的命运，也是我们的命运。值此关头，我们不能旁观，必须站出来为王功权先生发声：

我们强烈谴责当局这一粗暴行径。呼吁当局立即无条件释放王功权先生！不要激怒社会，不要再制造仇恨与暴戾。

我们同时呼吁全社会，尤其呼吁知识分子、法律人、企业家们，持续关注王功权先生，像王功权先生一直以来为弱势群体、为其他受难公民奔走呼号那样，最大限度为王功权先生奔走呼号，用全社会的力量保障王功权先生的人权与公民权利。

从丁家喜、赵常青到许志永，再从许志永到广州郭飞雄、到上海李化平、到云南董如彬，已经不只是哪个人，而是萌芽中的公民社会正遭到全面镇压，中国社会正面临最危险的时候。

放了王功权，给善一条出路，给自由与公义一条出路，给和平转型一条出路。同胞们，覆巢之下无完卵，不要听任我们国家在与现代文明背道而驰的野蛮深渊中无限沉沦。用实际行动保卫公民社会，那其实是保卫我们每个人自己。

中国公民：刘苏里、郭玉闪、笑蜀（陈敏）

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Urgent Statement Regarding the Criminal Detention of Wang Gongquan 

Around 11:30 am on September 13, 2013, Beijing time, two dozen or so police officers arrived at the home of Mr. Wang Gongquan (王功权), and took him away with them after searching for two hours. At 8:17 pm, the police announced that Mr. Wang was criminally detained, and a notice of such was served to his family. He was suspected of “disrupting order in a public place.”

This is an absurd accusation and Mr. Wang Gongquan could not possibly have disrupted order in any public places.

Mr. Wang Gongquan is a staunch supporter of the New Citizens’ Movement. His hope is that the Movement will help citizens to press for their civil rights guaranteed by the Constitution through peaceful and legal approaches, to promote China’s peaceful transformation toward a more humane, freer, more just, and more loving society. Such are his values as a devoted Buddhist, a humanitarian, and a peace-lover.

People like him should be welcome and cherished in China. But instead, he’s met with such barbaric treatment. This is not just unfairness against Mr. Wang, but also a blow against all humanitarians, peace-lovers, and those who still have a little hope left in themselves about a peaceful transition in China. At this moment, we cannot conceal our shock.

What Mr. Wang Gongquan believes is also our direction, and his fate is our fate. We will not look on passively. We must stand up and speak out for Mr. Wang:

We resolutely condemn such barbaric actions by the government. We ask the authorities to free Mr. Wang Gongquan immediately and unconditionally. We warn them to stop provoke the society, and stop breeding more hatred and violent sentiments.

At the same time, we also call on the society as a whole, especially intellectuals, legal professionals and entrepreneurs, to pay close attention to the case of Mr. Wang Gongquan, to do whatever they can to speak out for him just as he has done for the disempowered and other persecuted citizens, and to protect his human rights and citizen’s rights with all of our strength.

The arrests have spread from Ding Jiaxi (丁家喜), Zhao Changqing (赵常青) to Xu Zhiyong (许志永) in Beijing, to Guo Feixiong (郭飞雄) in Guangzhou, to Li Huaping (李化平) in Shanghai, to Dong Rubin (董如彬) in Yunnan. It is not about a few people anymore. Instead, the nascent effort toward a civil society is being clamped down upon ruthlessly across the board, and Chinese society is at one of its most dangerous moments.

Free Wang Gongquan. Give a chance to goodness, to freedom and justice, and to a peaceful transformation. Fellow Chinese, when the nest is upset no egg is left intact. Do not let our country fall any deeper into the abyss in the opposite direction of modern civilization without doing anything. Take actions to defend the effort to build a civil society, for, by doing so, we are defending ourselves, each one of us.

Citizens of China: Liu Suli (刘苏里), Guo Yushan (郭玉闪) and Xiao Shu (笑蜀, or Chen Min陈敏)

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Related reading:

Activist Chinese Billionaire Is Arrested, the New York Times’ coverage of Mr. Wang’s detention with information about Wang as a businessman and as an activist.

(Translation by ChinaChange.org)

Chinese original