ABSTRACT

In Beijing, one of the organizations established was the Liberal Democratic Party of China. The publication in 1991 of what was to become the first of a series of White Papers on Human Rights provoked reactions from dissidents at home and abroad. Since the government accepted and itself made use of the language of human rights, it was inevitable that dissidents also increasingly would come to refer to human rights and China's international obligations in their statements and open letters. Members of the Liberal Democratic Party of China thus promptly wrote a statement demanding the release of political prisoners and respect for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) The pro-democracy movement in China is an important component part of international human rights activities. Since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) became a ruling party, it has imposed a bureaucratic-monopoly, military, and police rule on China to exercise comprehensive autocracy over the Chinese people politically, economically, and culturally.