Charter 08
Charter 08: The Most Significant Act of Chinese dissent since Tiananmen
- On December 10, 2008, more than 2000 Chinese citizens released a signed petition they called Charter 08 to mark the 60th anniversary of the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The name, Charter 08, came from the famous Charter 77 dissident group formed in cold war Czechoslovakia. The Chinese document calls for an end to one party rule, to be replaced by a system based on human rights ...
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