Safeguard Defenders, August 28, 2017
Poster by @badiucao
The Human Rights Tulip is an award by the Dutch government for courageous human rights defenders.
Wang Quanzhang (CHINA) is a lawyer, father and husband whose work to defend and protect persecuted religious groups, especially Christians and Falun Gong practitioners, has made him a target himself. He is also a defender who understands that broader change in China must come from developing a wider movement of rights defenders.
Since 2008, Wang has worked to develop institutions and mechanisms to train, teach, and offer support to the greater rights defense community, from other rights defense lawyers, “barefoot” lawyers working locally, or victims themselves. Wang is the co-founder of an NGO that established training programs, training many hundreds of lawyers and rights defenders around China. Wang has likewise led the development of several innovative guides and training manuals to assist the rights defense movement to achieve greater success in their work.
By the time Wang was kidnapped by Chinese police on August 5, 2015, he was one of the few remaining lawyers in the whole of China who continued to provide legal aid to those most in need and has continued his work despite threats, beatings and attacks. No one has heard, seen or spoken with Wang for over 700 days. Reliable sources have claimed that he has been subjected to electro-shock torture, amongst other forms of torture. Wang has refused to admit guilt or incriminate others. Wang’s defiance and refusal to disavow his beliefs, friends and other lawyers, has made him a target in the eyes of the Chinese communist party and their “war on lawyers.”
Wang needs your support and your vote. Public voting is open between August 28 and September 6. Go to:
https://www.humanrightstulip.nl/candidates-and-voting/wang-quanzhang and follow the steps.
The winner will be selected from the top 3 candidates by the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Twitter hashtag #Tulip4Wang
投709律师王全璋一票
人权捍卫者郁金香奖是荷兰政府为具有超人勇气的人权捍卫者设立的奖项。
王全璋（中国）是一位致力于为被迫害的信仰群体做辩护和维权的律师，同时也是一位父亲和丈夫。特别是为基督徒和法轮功练习者的代理，使他自身成为了被打击目标。同时他也是一位深知在中国要有广泛的改变必须要发展更广阔的维权运动的人权人士。
自2008年以来，王全璋就开始致力于发展为更大的维权社区提供培训、教学、支持的机构和机制，受益人的范围包括其他的人权律师、在本地工作的“赤脚”律师、以及那些受害者们。王全璋也是一位开展法律培训项目的NGO联合创始人，在中国各地培训了几百名律师和人权捍卫者。而且王还主导开创了多本创新性的指南和培训手册以帮助促使在维权活动中达到更大的成功率。
在2015年8月5日王全璋被带走之前的日子，随着越来越多的人权律师渐渐暂停代理敏感案件，王全璋是少数的虽然面临着威胁、殴打或打击，却仍然继续为有需要的群体提供法律援助的律师之一。自从被官方带走后，王全璋与外界失联已经超过700天，没有任何人得以与王通话或见面。据可靠的消息来源指称王在被关押期间遭受电击的酷刑，王坚持着拒绝认罪或归罪他人。王就否认自己的信念、归罪朋友和其他律师的抵抗和拒绝，让他成为了中国共产党眼中以及“对律师之战”的目标。
王全璋需要你的帮助和投票。公开投票会在8月28日至9月6日之间开放。请到下列网址，按照上图显示的中文指示投票：
https://www.humanrightstulip.nl/candidates-and-voting/wang-quanzhang
获奖人会由外交部长从三位最高票候选人中选出。
推特标签 #Tulip4Wang
Wang Quan Zhang’s case is a particularly cruel one; if anyone could be said to have “disappeared”, he is a prime example. The hell his family must be in is unimaginable.
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