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President Ma calls for Chinese dissidents to be released
President Ma calls for other Chinese dissidents to be released
June 24, 2011 - President Ma Ying-jeou expressed approval Thursday of mainland China's decision to release jailed artist Ai Weiwei and urged Beijing free other political dissidents.
Earlier this month, on the 22nd anniversary of the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, Ma had called on the mainland to release Ai and human rights activist Liu Xiaobo.
"With Ai released 18 days after the June 4 statement, President Ma expressed his approval of the move by the mainland authorities," Presidential Office spokesman Fan Chiang Tai-chi said.
Fan Chiang said Ma's attention to the human rights situation on the mainland was based upon the spirit of benevolence and altruism that underlies Chinese culture.
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