北京爱知行研究所所长万延海流亡美国

引用: 原帖由 lvbing 于 2010-5-10 17:10 发表 我跟着你看新闻 学英语吧

Despite pressures, activist perseveres 尽管有压力，积极人士仍不屈不挠 HIV/Aids campaigner continues his fight for a more democratic and fair China HIV/Aids活动家继续他的战斗为了跟民主更公平的中国 Verna Yu May 10, 2010 From a lone campaigner on a bicycle distributing Aids prevention fliers to a prominent activist closely watched by the government, Wan Yanhai has always given the impression of being a fearless maverick. 从一个骑自行车发放预防艾滋病宣传单张的孤独活动者，到一个被官方密切关注的杰出活动家万延海，向来给人一个无所畏惧特立独行的印象。 But the bespectacled, slightly built 46-year-old former health official says he has always been very reserved. 但是一位清瘦戴眼镜的46岁前卫生部官员评价他，他一向十分低调。 "Many people say `Oh, you're so brave' but actually I'm a very timid person," Wan said in Hong Kong last week before he and his family departed for the United States. "Even crossing a footbridge scares me." “很多人说啊，'你这么勇敢'，但其实我是一个很胆小的人”万上周在香港说，在他和家人离开美国之前， “即使穿越行人天桥都让我害怕。” A passion to help Aids victims and an overriding sense of moral obligation are what prompted him to brave the daily pressure over the past two decades. 对帮助艾滋病患者的热情以及道德义务感是使他勇敢面对过去20年来每天的压力。 Wan lost his job in the Health Ministry in 1992 when he launched the nation's first HIV/Aids counselling hotline, which officials closed the next year. Two years later, he founded the Aizhixing Institute, an independent NGO that aims to promote Aids awareness, advocate policy reforms and ensure that vulnerable communities have access to health care and legal protection. In 2008 Wan and the Aizhixing Institute helped found a centre for lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transsexuals in Beijing. 万在1992年失去了他在卫生部工作，他推出了中国首个艾滋病毒/艾滋病咨询热线，当局一年后将其关闭。两年后，他创立了爱知行，一个独立的非政府组织，旨在促进艾滋病的认识，倡导政策改革，并确保弱势群体获得医疗保健和法律保护。 2008年万和爱知行研究所参与创立了一个关羽同性恋，双性恋和变性人的中心在北京。 From 1994 to 1997, Wan played a key role in exposing the connection between blood transfusions and an outbreak of Aids in Henan . More than 1 million people there sold blood to government-run clinics, which collected plasma during the 1990s. Due to improper procedures, at least 150,000 people became HIV positive. 从1994年到1997年，万发挥了关键作用在揭露河南省的输血与艾滋病疫情爆发之间的联系。 100多万人有向政府开办的诊所所卖血，20世纪90年代期间收集的血浆。由于不当的采血流程，导致至少有15万人出现艾滋病毒呈阳性反应。 By bringing the blood-selling scandal to the attention of the media in 2001, Wan passed the point of no return. He has been detained three times in the past eight years and taken in for questioning on numerous occasions. In 2002, he was accused of "revealing state secrets" and detained for nearly a month after he posted on the internet a government report showing that Henan officials had ignored and covered up the blood contamination scandal. 2001年他使卖血丑闻受到媒体的关注，万走上了了不归路。他曾3次被拘留，在过去8年，采取多次讯问。 2002年，他被指控“泄露国家机密”，并拘留了近1个月后，他在互联网上发布一份政府报告，报告显示河南省官员无视和掩盖了血液污染丑闻。 In late 2006, he was detained for three days after police ordered him to cancel a workshop that would have brought together HIV victims and NGO and legal professionals to discuss the spread of Aids through blood transfusions. He was detained overnight in late 2007 shortly after fellow Aids activist Hu Jia was arrested. Hu was later sentenced to 3-1/2 years for "inciting subversion". 2006年末，警察命令他取消一个输血传播导致的艾滋病研讨会，这个研讨会聚集了艾滋病毒的受害者和非政府组织和法律专业人员，之后被拘留了三天。他被拘留后不久，隔夜艾滋病活动家胡佳在2007年底被逮捕。胡后来被判三年半的“煽动颠覆”罪。 Although Wan has received international acclaim for his work - he was the winner of the Human Rights Watch's award for action on HIV issues and human rights in 2002 and received the Fulbright New Century Scholar and Yale World Fellow awards - this has not made his work at home any easier. 虽然万已收到他所做工作的国际赞誉 - 他是人权观察艾滋病毒的问题的获奖者，2002年人权行动奖获得者，得到了富布赖特新世纪的学者和耶鲁世界研究员奖 -但 这并没有使他的工作家里更容易。 Police have always made their presence known around sensitive anniversaries, high-profile events, such as the Olympics, and international dignitaries' visits by following him everywhere and parking outside his home. Police have knocked on his door requesting to check his and his family's identity cards. His landlord has been pressured to stop renting a flat to him. He believes his phone calls are monitored. 警方总是在敏感的日子，知名的活动时候，如奥运会和国际政要访华时出现在他家，走到哪跟到哪并且将车在他家门口。警方经常敲他的门，要求检查他和他家人的身份证。他的房东已被迫停止租用一个单位给他。他认为他的电话进行监控。 Asked why he would carry on in the face of such harsh conditions, Wan said he felt compelled to speak out for the underprivileged. 当被问及在这样苛刻的条件下他为什么仍然继续，万说，他感到必须为弱势群体说话了。 "It's my conscience. This society has too many problems and you have to have a sense of moral obligation towards it," he said. "So many children have been infected because of blood contamination. There are too many disasters in our society. We must work hard to make changes. Otherwise, we - our families, our children - will be victims, too." “这是我的良心。这个社会有太多的问题，你必须有它的道德义务感去面对他们，”他说。 “这么多的儿童因为血液被感染。在我们的社会有太多的灾难。我们必须努力做出改变。否则，我们 - 我们的家庭，我们的孩子 - 也将成为受害者，”。 Despite his strong sense of mission, Wan admitted the pressure had become too much recently. 尽管他有强烈的使命感，但是万也承认的最近压力变得很大。 In March, the Beijing tax authorities sent inspectors to check Aizhixing's accounts - the second time in the past year and a half that they made surprise visits to the office. The same month, the Beijing Industry and Commerce Administrative Bureau sent inspectors to his office, and last month, the fire department visited. 今年3月，北京税务机关派出检查人员，检查北京爱知行的帐户 - 这是在过去一年半的第二次突击检查他们的办公室。同月，北京市工商行政管理局派出检查人员到他的办公室，和上月，消防部门也来检查。 Recently local NGO partners have been told to cut contact with him. In March, police stormed into a lecture he was giving at a Guangzhou university and stopped him from delivering the rest of his speech. 最近，本地非政府组织合作伙伴已被告知要切断与他接触。今年3月，警察破门进入一个演讲，他正在给广州大学做的讲座，警察组织了他剩余的讲座。 "I have been under lots of pressure. I can't put my mind to rest," he said. "I can't stand it any more. I'm not made of steel." Wan said he feared his group would meet the same fate as the Open Constitution Initiative, or Gongmeng, the independent legal aid centre that was raided and closed down last year over alleged tax evasion. Gongmeng was fined 1.42 million yuan (HK$1.62 million), and its founder, Xu Zhiyong , was detained for three weeks. Beijing does not allow independent NGOs to register as non-profit organisations without a caretaker, often a government department or government-backed agency. But that is nearly impossible, so most are forced to register as companies and must pay taxes. Wan said that by scrutinising Aizhixing's activities and stepping up harassment on him, the government was sending a message that if he continues his activism, what happened to Gongmeng would also happen to his organisation. "If I carry on being unco-operative, they have ways to make me feel uncomfortable," he said. Asked whether he worried that he too would be arrested, Wan, the father of a four-year-old girl, said: "Yes, of course. This is my No 1 concern." Aizhixing still collaborated with government agencies up until 2007, but Wan's campaign to seek compensation for the victims made the government feel his organisation posed too large a threat. Aizhixing's criticism of the government, promotion of human rights and largely overseas funding have made it unpopular with authorities, Wan said. It also represents an independent voice and has extensive networks with grass-roots NGOs - all of which make the government uneasy. "I think it's their political fear. We were suing public hospitals and were receiving a lot of funding from abroad. I think they wanted to rein it in." The general environment for NGOs has become the harshest in recent years, Wan said. The State Administration of Foreign Exchange has this year tightened restrictions on overseas donations to independent domestic NGOs, requiring them to meet new conditions, among them the presentation of certificates of registration of the overseas donor organisations and a notarised donation agreement. Wan fears the new regulations will threaten the survival of the mainland's fledgling civil society. Analysts say Beijing is particularly sensitive to the growth of a robust, civil society, mindful of the role that independent groups, such as the labour union Solidarity in Poland, played in the meltdown of the Communist regime in Warsaw. But Wan said he is not anti-government. After all, his father joined the Communist Party as an idealistic young man and worked for the government all his life. 但万说，他不是反政府。毕竟，他的父亲是当年一个理想主义年轻人加入共产党的人，并且为政府工作了一辈子。 "We're not against the Communist Party. We have our views on democracy and human rights, but we're not against the Communist Party," he said. “我们不是反对共产党。我们有自己对民主和人权的看法，但我们不反对共产党，”他说。 "But I want to say to the government: China should be more democratic, China should protect human rights and the law." “不过，我想对政府说：中国应该更加民主，中国要保护人权和法律。” [ 本帖最后由 田思明 于 2010-5-10 17:51 编辑 ]

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今天的南华早报 Publication Date: May 10, 2010Publication: SCMSection/PageName: News/Nws_Page_1Page No: 01Edition/Zone: 2/1 Headline: I had to leave, Aids activist says 标题： 我不得不走，艾滋病活动家说 Wan Yanhai , the mainland's leading activist on Aids and sexual minorities, has left China for the US with his family, saying harassment from the authorities has forced him into a self-imposed exile. 万延海，大陆知名艾滋病及性少数人群维权人士，离开中国举家赴美。因为当局的骚扰迫使他自我流亡 The director of the Aizhixing Institute - arguably the mainland's most vocal NGO - told the South China Morning Post that he and his family arrived in Los Angeles on Thursday night last week. For now, he is staying at a friend's place in Philadelphia. 爱知行（可以说是中国最敢言的NGO）的理事,告诉南华早报，他和他的家人上周四到达洛杉矶。现在，他住在他朋友费城的住所。 "Before we left China, I was under a lot of pressure and was harassed by many [government] departments," Wan said in a phone interview late on Saturday. “我离开中国前，我受到大多的来自政府部门的压力和骚扰”。万在上周六接受电话采访时说。 Wan said not only had the local tax, commerce and industry bureaus investigated his group in recent months, but the fire department had also visited his office checking if any regulations had been breached. Beijing police also made dozens of phone calls to him last month and visited his home when he was out of town, he said. 万说，不单单是地方税务工商部门近几个月调查他的组织，而且消防部门也来他的办公室检查有没有违反规章的地方。北京警方也在上个月打了几十个电话给他，并且在他出差时候去他家。 Phone calls to the departments went unanswered yesterday. 昨天给他单位打电话没人接。 "I felt my personal safety was at stake," he said. "The mental pressure was just too much, so I've come out for a bit of breathing space." “我感到我的人身安全受到威胁”他说 “精神压力太大，所以去了个地方歇歇” Wan said his family had not received political or financial assistance from the US. He said he and his wife were travelling on business visas that were issued in September when they went to the United States for an alumni reunion at Yale University. Wan was on the Yale World Fellows Programme in 2003. 万说，他和他的家人没有受到美方的政治或者财产自助。他说他和他妻子用的签证是去年九月份赴美耶鲁大学同学聚会时候签发的商务签证。万是2003年耶鲁国际学者计划的成员。 Wan said he hoped to seek short-term research positions or fellowships at universities in the US to maintain his family. His four-year-old daughter is with them. 万说他想在美国的大学里面申请短期的研究项目或者奖学金，由此来养活他的家人。她四岁的女儿也跟他在一起。 He said he would also seek collaboration with international organisations to look for ways for the Aizhixing Institute to continue receiving overseas financial aid. 他说，他想寻求国际组织的合作来寻求使爱知行继续获得外国的资金援助。 Asked whether his departure would affect the morale of his staff and fellow Aids activists, Wan admitted this might happen but believed his staff would be capable of running projects smoothly in his absence. 被问及他的离开是否影响他的工作人员和其他艾滋病活动者的士气，万承认这可能发生，但相信他的工作人员将在他缺席情况下，继续顺利进行项目。 "Even if I hadn't left, I wouldn't be able to carry on working normally," he said. "I kept getting phone calls from the police and five, six government departments are after me - I just could not concentrate on my work." “即使我没有离开，我也无法正常的工作”他说，“我每天要接到很多警察打来的电话，而且五六个政府部门总跟着我，我无法专心工作” Wan said he did not know the reason behind the harassment but believed officials may be sending a message that they would like him to leave the country. 万说他不知道这些骚扰背后的原因，但他相信这些官员在跟他发送一个信号就是他们希望万离开这个国家。 "I'm not sure but it looks like they might be forcing me to leave ... the aim of the harassment is probably to give you pressure so you'll leave of your own accord," he said. “我不确定但是这看起来像迫使我离开...骚扰的目的可能是给我压力，让我自己找理由离开” Wan's fellow Aids campaigner, Dr Gao Yaojie , the mainland's most high-profile HIV/Aids whistle-blower, also left China for the US last year. 万的同事，艾滋病活动家，高耀洁老师，大陆最高调的HIV/Aids揭露者，去年离开中国去美国。 Another fellow activist, Hu Jia , was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison on the charge of "inciting subversion of state authority" in 2008. 另一位活动家，胡佳，以“煽动和颠覆国家罪”在2008年被判处3年半有期徒刑。 While acknowledging that the central government has also made significant progress in its Aids projects, Wan said it did not like criticism, especially when it could potentially embarrass officials. Wan had accused provincial officials in Henan of covering up a blood-selling scandal in which at least 150,000 people became HIV-positive. 虽然也承认中央政府在其艾滋病项目取得重大进展，但是万说，他们不喜欢批评，特别是当它可能会令官员非常为难的时候。万已经指控了一个掩盖卖血丑闻的河南省省级官员，导致至少有150,000人艾滋病毒抗体阳。 "If you criticise them and tell the truth about the blood [contamination], they'll persecute you," he said. “如果你批评他们，告诉有关的血液[污染]真相，他们会迫害你，”他说。 Wan said he did not know how long he could stay in the US, but hoped to remain for two or three years. "In China, I was a bird in a cage ... by leaving China I'll be out of their control and they might have more consideration for your influence," he said. 万说，他不知道可以留在美国多久，但仍希望两年或者三年。 “在中国，我就是关在笼子里的鸟...而离开中国我就离开他们的他们控制的，他们可能对你的影响力有更多的考虑，”他说。 [ 本帖最后由 田思明 于 2010-5-10 17:45 编辑 ]