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【聲明】呼籲各國政府和老撾（寮國）政府確保立即釋放中國人權律師盧思位

2023-08-02

文/民間司法改革基金會與全球共68個人權和律師組織

（2023年8月2日）民間司法改革基金會昨（1）日與全球共68個人權和律師組織發出緊急聯合聲明，聲援著名中國人權律師盧思位日前在寮國過境前往美國時，被強行拘留、恐將被遣返中國並遭受酷刑等不人道待遇的命運。

本會協同中國人權捍衛者（Chinese Human Rights Defenders，CHRD）、人權觀察（Human Rights Watch）、國際特赦組織（Amnesty International），以及台北律師公會人權委員會、全國律師聯合會人權保護委員會等各國組織，呼籲各界關注人權律師盧思位的現況，請見下連結為中英文聲明全文及連署組織名單檔案。

截至目前，我們仍無法得知盧思位律師的確切下落。

以下為事件最新情況：

8月1日清晨，前中國法官李建峰（加拿大籍）和K. O’Brien（美國籍）獲准進入寮國移民局大樓（盧據報被關押處）。然而，李建峰表示他遭到六名官員毆打，據稱是為了報復他在7月28日拍攝盧思位律師被拘留情況的影片。隨後，寮國官員試圖逼迫兩名支持者簽署未翻譯文件，但未成功，最終允許兩人離開。然而，官員威脅稱若他們繼續停留在寮國將有危險。兩名支持者昨日下午已平安返回泰國。

寮國政府的肢體虐待和恐嚇加重了盧思位律師被拘留的不確定性，並引發各界對他是否會被強制遣返的憂慮。

原標題：人權及律師團體呼籲各國政府和老撾（寮國）政府確保中國人權律師盧思位被立即釋放 聯合聲明

（2023年8月1日）據報導，老撾（寮國）政府自 2023 年 7 月 28 日起逮捕並拘留了著名中國人權律師盧思位。我們對盧律師面臨被強制遣返中國，並很可能因而受到酷刑和其他虐待，表示嚴重關切。

東南亞多國經常迫於壓力而將弱勢群體強行遣返中國，被遣返者因此面臨任意拘留、不公平審判、酷刑和其他虐待等風險。各地人權團體有眾多相關紀錄，從 2009 年維吾爾人從柬埔寨被強制遣返，到 2022 年 8 月中國民主活動家董廣平在越南失蹤，後被發現遭受中國拘留。書商桂民海2015年在泰國失蹤，其後在中國露面，護照卻被政府扣留。事實上這些人都經歷了長時間的強迫失蹤，其家人和同事往往要在數月甚或多年後才能取得他們的消息。

我們敦促第三方政府：
要求老撾（寮國）政府立即停止遣返盧思位，並迅速採取行動，確保他能夠接觸聯合國人員和他選擇的律師；並公開呼籲中國政府撤銷針對盧思位的任何可能指控。

老撾（寮國）政府一旦將盧思位移交給中國政府，即意味將盧置於遭受酷刑和非人道待遇的嚴重風險。聯合國人權專家已多次指出，中國政府經常對人權捍衛者和律師施以酷刑和非人道待遇。

根據國際習慣法，並自 2012 年 9 月起作為聯合國《禁止酷刑及其他殘忍不人道或有辱人格之待遇或處罰公約》（CAT） 締約國，老撾（寮國）人民民主共和國政府負有《禁止酷刑公約》第 3 條規定的不驅回義務，不將任何人遣返至他極有可能遭受酷刑的國家。

我們敦促老撾（寮國）政府：
根據國際人權義務，立即中止遣返盧思位的一切程序並釋放他；安排他會見聯合國有關官員和他自己選擇的律師；根據需要允許他會見美國和其他國家的外交官員，幫助他繼續前往美國與家人團聚的旅程；以及在上述情況得到實踐之前，公開其所在，並確保其人身安全和身心健康。

盧思位是中國著名的人權律師和捍衛者，為弱勢群體發聲，並曾代理眾多政治異見人士案件。中國政府近年對權利倡導容忍度愈來愈低，他們對盧律師進行恐嚇和騷擾，包括 2021 年 1 月以其網路言論「涉嫌危害國家安全」為藉口，撤銷其律師資格；盧律師更在前往相關聽證會途中，遭受襲擊。此後，盧思位一直受到中國政府密切監控，並自2021年5月起被禁制出境。

據了解，盧思位律師此次過境老撾（寮國），是要前往美國與家人團聚。

聯署團體（依英文名字母排序）

  1. Amnesty International 國際特赦組織
  2. ALTSEAN-Burma
  3. Asia Democracy Network (ADN) 亞洲民主網絡
  4. Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) 亞洲人權與發展論壇
  5. ARTICLE 19
  6. Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales
  7. Bytes For All, Pakistan
  8. Campaign For Uyghurs 維吾爾運動
  9. ChinaAid 對華援助協會
  10. China Change 改變中國
  11. Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) 中國人權捍衛者
  12. Civic Initiatives
  13. CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation 公民參與世界聯盟
  14. Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt (CADTM) 廢除非法債務委員會
  15. Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation 香港自由委員會基金
  16. CSW
  17. Exile Hub, Thailand, Myanmar
  18. FIDH (International Federation for Human Rights), within the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders保護人權捍衛者觀察組織，國際人權聯盟
  19. Focus on the Global South
  20. Foundation for Media Alternatives
  21. Freedom Seekers International
  22. Free Expression Myanmar 緬甸言論自由
  23. Freiheit für Hongkong e.V. 自由香港
  24. Fresh Eyes, United Kingdom
  25. Front Line Defenders 前線衛士
  26. Georgetown Center for Asian Law 喬治城大學法學院亞洲法中心
  27. Gill H. Boehringer, Professor, Chair, Australian Branch, IAPL
  28. Hong Kong Watch 香港監察
  29. Hongkonger in Deutschland e.V. 香港人在德國協會
  30. Humanitarian China 人道中國
  31. Human Rights in China 中國人權
  32. Human Rights Online Philippines (HRonlinePH)
  33. Human Rights Watch 人權觀察
  34. HuMENA for Human Rights and Civic Engagement
  35. ILGA Asia
  36. Indonesia Save Uyghur
  37. Innovation for Change – East Asia
  38. Innovation for Change – South Asia
  39. International Association of People’s Lawyers (IAPL) Monitoring Committee on Attacks on Lawyers 國際人民律師協會
  40. International Service for Human Rights (ISHR) 國際人權服務社
  41. International Society for Human Rights國際人權協會
  42. International Tibet Network Secretariat 國際西藏網路秘書處
  43. Internet Policy Observatory Pakistan
  44. Judicial Reform Foundation 財團法人民間司法改革基金會
  45. Lawyers for Lawyers
  46. Manushya Foundation 馬努西亞基金會
  47. Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA)
  48. New School for Democracy Association 社團法人華人民主書院協會
  49. Open Net (Korea)
  50. PakVoices.pk
  51. PEN America 美國筆會
  52. Public Virtue Research Institute
  53. Safeguard Defenders 保護衛士
  54. Social Innovations Advisory
  55. Society of Young Social Innovators (SYSI)
  56. Southeast Asia Freedom of Expression Network (SAFEnet)
  57. Taipei Bar Association Human Rights Committee 台北律師公會人權委員會
  58. Taiwan Bar Association Human Rights Protection Committee 全國律師聯合會人權保護委員會
  59. Taiwan Support China Human Rights Lawyers Network 臺灣聲援中國人權律師網絡
  60. Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy 西藏人權與民主中心
  61. Tibet Initiative Deutschland e.V. 德國西藏倡議
  62. 29 Principles 29原則
  63. Uyghur Human Rights Project 維吾爾人權項目
  64. Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation
  65. Wang Dan, Dialogue China 對話中國
  66. We The Hongkongers 我們是香港人
  67. World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), within the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders
  68. Young Leadership for Social Change Network

NGOs and Lawyers Groups Call on Governments & Lao Authorities to
Ensure the Immediate Release of Chinese Human Rights Lawyer Lu Siwei

A Joint Statement

(1 August 2023) Lao authorities have reportedly arrested and detained well-known Chinese human rights lawyer Lu Siwei since 28 July 2023. We are gravely concerned that he is at serious risk of forced repatriation to China where he faces the high likelihood of torture and other ill-treatment. 

Southeast Asian governments have frequently been pressured into forcibly returning vulnerable individuals back to China, where they have faced arbitrary detention, unfair trials, torture, enforced disappearances, and other ill-treatment. Our organizations have documented numerous cases, ranging from the 2009 forced return of Uyghurs from Cambodia to the August 2022 disappearance of Chinese democracy activist Dong Guangping from Vietnam into Chinese custody. Gui Minhai, a bookseller, was disappeared in Thailand in 2015 only to resurface in China without his passport. These individuals are effectively disappeared for extended periods, with family members and colleagues unable to obtain information until months or years after. 

We urge third party governments to: 

  1. Ask Lao authorities to immediately halt Lu Siwei’s repatriation and to move quickly to ensure he has access to the relevant UN authorities and a lawyer of his choice; and, 
  2. Publicly call on Chinese authorities to drop any potential charges against Lu Siwei. 

By handing Lu Siwei over to the Chinese authorities, the Lao government would be putting Lu Siwei at grave risk of torture and inhuman treatment. UN rights experts have found that the Chinese government frequently subjects rights defenders and lawyers to torture and inhuman treatment. Under international customary law and as a state party to the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT) since September 2012, the Lao PDR government has a non-refoulement obligation as stipulated in Article 3 of the CAT not to return a person to a state where they are at high likelihood of being subjected to torture. 

We urge the Lao government to: 

  1. Halt all processes of repatriation for Lu Siwei and release him immediately according to its international human rights obligations; 
  2. Arrange for him to meet with the relevant UN authorities and a lawyer of his own choosing; 
  3. Allow him to meet with diplomats from the United States and other countries, as needed, to help him resume his journey to reunite with his family currently in the United States; and 
  4. Pending the above, to disclose his whereabouts and ensure his personal safety as well as his physical and mental well-being. 

Lu Siwei is a renowned rights defender and lawyer in China, advocating for vulnerable groups and representing numerous political dissidents. As the Chinese authorities have become increasingly intolerant of independent rights advocacy, they have targeted Lu with intimidation and harassment, including disbarment in January 2021 for online speech that allegedly “endangered national security”. Lu Siwei was also physically attacked while traveling to the hearing for his disbarment. Since then, Lu has been closely monitored by the Chinese authorities and subject to an exit ban since May 2021. It is understood that Lu was in Laos en route to joining his family in the United States. 

Undersigned, in alphabetical order 

  1. Amnesty International 
  2. ALTSEAN-Burma 
  3. Asia Democracy Network (ADN) 
  4. Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) 
  5. ARTICLE 19 
  6. Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales 
  7. Bytes For All, Pakistan 
  8. Campaign For Uyghurs 
  9. ChinaAid 
  10. China Change 
  11. Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) 
  12. Civic Initiatives 
  13. CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation 
  14. Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt (CADTM) 
  15. Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation 
  16. CSW 
  17. Exile Hub, Thailand, Myanmar 
  18. FIDH (International Federation for Human Rights), within the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders 
  19. Focus on the Global South 
  20. Foundation for Media Alternatives 
  21. Freedom Seekers International
  22. Free Expression Myanmar 
  23. Freiheit für Hongkong e.V. 
  24. Fresh Eyes, United Kingdom 
  25. Front Line Defenders 
  26. Georgetown Center for Asian Law 
  27. Gill H. Boehringer, Professor, Chair, Australian Branch, IAPL 
  28. Hong Kong Watch 
  29. Hongkonger in Deutschland e.V. 
  30. Humanitarian China 
  31. Human Rights in China 
  32. Human Rights Online Philippines (HRonlinePH) 
  33. Human Rights Watch
  34. HuMENA for Human Rights and Civic Engagement 
  35. ILGA Asia 
  36. Indonesia Save Uyghur 
  37. Innovation for Change-East Asia 
  38. Innovation for Change South Asia 
  39. International Association of People’s Lawyers (IAPL) Monitoring Committee on Attacks on Lawyers 
  40. International Service for Human Rights (ISHR) 
  41. International Society for Human Rights 
  42. International Tibet Network Secretariat 
  43. Internet Policy Observatory Pakistan 
  44. Judicial Reform Foundation 
  45. Lawyers for Lawyers 
  46. Manushya Foundation 
  47. Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA) 
  48. New School for Democracy Association 
  49. Open Net (Korea) 
  50. PakVoices.pk 
  51. PEN America 
  52. Public Virtue Research Institute 
  53. Safeguard Defenders 
  54. Social Innovations Advisory 
  55. Society of Young Social Innovators (SYSI) 
  56. Southeast Asia Freedom of Expression Network (SAFEnet) 
  57. Taipei Bar Association Human Rights Committee 
  58. Taiwan Bar Association Human Rights Protection Committee 
  59. Taiwan Support China Human Rights Lawyers Network 
  60. Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy 
  61. Tibet Initiative Deutschland e.V. 
  62. 29 Principles 
  63. Uyghur Human Rights Project 
  64. Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation 
  65. Wang Dan, Dialogue China 
  66. We The Hongkongers 
  67. World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), within the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders 
  68. Young Leadership for Social Change Network 

 

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