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[HCDX] The Foundation Voice of Tibet launches campaign to protest Chinese radio "jamming"
The Foundation Voice of Tibet launches campaign to protest Chinese
radio "jamming"
http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?id=16308&article=The+Found
ation+Voice+of+Tibet+launches+campaign+to+protest+Chinese+radio+
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VOT[Tuesday, April 24, 2007 23:44]
PRESS RELEASE
The Foundation Voice of Tibet launches campaign to protest Chinese
radio ?jamming?
Based on the fact that the Peoples Republic of China has
systematically ?jammed? Voice of Tibet?s and other ?foreign? short wave
radio services for more than 10 years now, we call for action and
support internationally to protest and demand an immediate stop to
these violating acts. According to the PRC Constitution and numerous
UN Resolutions we demand that the Chinese authorities immediately
start respecting the rights of the citizens they govern as well as the
rights of citizens of other countries (also affected by the Chinese
?jamming?).
?Jamming? violations by the PRC towards ?foreign? broadcasts
Voice of Tibet (VOT) is an independent NGO radio station, registered
as a foundation in Norway in 1995. VOT?s daily services contain
uncensored news and information about Tibet related issues in Tibetan
and Mandarin languages. Every day a 30 minutes program in Tibetan
and a 15 minutes program in Mandarin is produced and aired on short
wave repeatedly from 7 pm till midnight Beijing time.
The definition of ?jamming?:
Radio stations register their (short wave radio) frequencies
internationally twice a year to secure the exclusive right to frequencies
at registered times.
The definition of ?jamming? is ?the intentional transmission of radio
signals in order to interfere with the reception of signals from another
station.?
Violations without borders
VOT started broadcasting on short wave towards India, Nepal, Tibet
and China on 14 May 1996, renting airtime from FEBA Radio?s
transmitter site at the Seychelles. After a few weeks VOT?s
transmissions became the target of hostile jamming from Chinese
stations transmitting distorted noise and music on VOT?s internationally
registered frequencies. In the autumn of 1996 the PRC authorities
threatened FEBA Radio to cancel the contract with VOT, by threatening
to ?jam? all FEBA Radio?s other transmissions as well. Due to this threat
FEBA stopped transmitting VOT?s programs in 1996.
>From 2000 onwards the Chinese jamming towards VOT?s
transmissions was further intensified, as has been the case for most
other stations providing programming towards China in Mandarin,
Cantonese, and Tibetan, Uyghur and other minority language services.
These days each and every VOT transmission is targeted by at least
two simultaneous jamming transmissions from the PRC authorities,
using ?state-of-the-art? facilities outside cities like Beijing, Xian, Nanjing
and Linhe. But the illegal Chinese censorship does not stop there. In
more than 40 Tibetan cities and townships ?ground-wave? jamming
transmissions are targeting VOT?s internationally registered
frequencies. The reach of these local jamming transmissions varies
from 10 to 30 km in radius (from the antenna, which is often located at
a high point overseeing the valley or city) and is very effective within
this limited reach.
In Tibet the authorities define listening to ?foreign? broadcasts such as
VOT?s as ?splittist? acts. Those caught listening or showing others how
to tune to them are prosecuted or sent to ?reform-through-labour?
camps.
The Chinese jamming transmissions not only affects and denies
citizens within the borders of China access to our transmissions, it also
affects and denies access for listeners in countries like Nepal, India,
Taiwan and most parts of Europe as well.
PRC violating UN resolutions and its own Constitution
The following is a brief presentation outlining some of the rights
(supposed to be held) by all people governed by the PRC. Article 35 of
the Chinese Constitution ?guarantees? its citizens: (Freedom of speech,
press, assembly)
Citizens of the People's Republic of China (shall) enjoy freedom of
speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of procession and of
demonstration.
UNITED NATIONS
In its first decision on the subject, in 1946, the UN General Assembly
(Resolution 59(1)) declared freedom of information to be a fundamental
human right.
?Freedom of information is a fundamental human right and is the
touchstone of all the freedoms to which the United Nations is
consecrated?.
The same declaration further states:
?Freedom of information implies the right to gather, transmit and
publish news anywhere and everywhere without letters. As such it is an
essential factor in any serious effort to promote the peace and the
progress of the world.?
Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as adopted
and declared by the UN General Assembly resolution 217 A (III) of 10
December 1948, reads:
?Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right
includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek,
receive and impart information and ideas through any media and
regardless of frontiers.?
Specifically on the issue of ?jamming? a (1950) UN General Assembly
Resolution states:
?Jamming of radio broadcasts is condemned as a denial of the right of
all persons to be fully informed concerning news, opinions, and ideas
regardless of frontiers.?
APPEAL:
Based on the internationally acknowledged right to disseminate
information through radio broadcasts without disturbances, and the
rights of our listeners to access uncensored news and information, the
Foundation Voice of Tibet strongly protest the PRC censorship
violations. We call for action and support from Governments, politicians
and NGO?s worldwide in addressing the issue of jamming towards
representatives of the Peoples Republic of China, demanding an
immediate stop to their hostile ?jamming? transmissions. We request
that these violations of basic rights of millions of people in Tibet and
China should be part of any dialogue with PRC representatives.
The Foundation Voice of Tibet would also be most happy to provide
further information and documentation on the above mentioned issues.
A brief video presentation of VOT can be seen at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJd1lljj0Bc or at: www.vot.org
http://zlgr.multiply.com (raidio monitoring site plus audio clips )
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