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Shi Tao : Imprisoned for sending an email
Posted on: 15/01/08

eAppeal: Free Shi Tao

Shi Tao “Facing such tremendous adversities, I feel no shame, and I have not lost confidence in my future”
- Shi Tao.

Shi Tao is a freelance journalist and poet sentenced to 10 years imprisonment after he sent an email to an international colleague. Amnesty International recognizes Shi Tao as a prisoner of conscience, jailed solely for exercising his fundamental freedom of expression.

Please sign this electronic petition to China's Minister of Justice demanding freedom for Shi Tao and a stop to the prosecution and jailing human rights activists.

Please sign Amnesty's e-petition to free Shi Tao

3409 signatures have been added to the petition. Click here to view petition signatures.

To: Minister of Justice Wu Aiying Buzhang People's Republic of China Your Excellency, I am voicing my concern for Shi Tao, a journalist and writer who was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment in April 2005 for allegedly "supplying state secrets abroad" when he sent an email to an overseas colleague. I urge you to free Shi Tao without delay and without conditions, as he is a prisoner of conscience, detained only for exercising his fundamental right to freedom of expression. I also urge you to review China's criminal code with a view to stop using such vague pretexts as “supplying state secrets abroad,” “endangering national security,” and “subverting state power” to target human rights defenders. Add your own personal message about this case: Sincerely,
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