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NEWS ARCHIVE·DEATH PENALTY·JANUARY 21, 2002

Reform in the sphere of human rights and democracy...

Reform in the sphere of human rights and democracy in China should be gradual rather than arise from a revolutionary process, Jan Ruml, the deputy chairman of the Senate from the Freedom Union, told CTK after meeting Chinese dissident Wang Dan

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Reform in the sphere of human rights and democracy in China should be gradual rather than arise from a revolutionary process, Jan Ruml, the deputy chairman of the Senate from the Freedom Union, told CTK after meeting Chinese dissident Wang Dan.
Wang Dan, one of the leaders of democratic demonstration at Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989, does not want a revolutionary process of change because "he knows what such a process can trigger in such a huge, militarized, country an omnipresence of the secret service which has capital punishment", Ruml said.
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  • (Sources: CTK news agency monitored by BBC, 21/01/2002)