The Beijing Olympics has come to an end, but will those rights advocates, dissidents and petitioners who are detained and placed under house arrest by the Communist regime be released while larger-scale arrests are in progress. On August 26, Shanghai rights activist Chang Xong-Fa expressed in an interview with an SOH reporter that the Communists will not free the detainees.
Chang Xong-Fa said that due to the proceeding Paralympic Games, the Chinese Communist Party, fearing its dark side will be exposed to the international society, is unlikely to release the detainees and free those under their monitoring and custody.
[Recording] “There are two reasons for this conclusion. Firstly, the Para-Olympics follows soon, when there will be a lot of foreign reporters around. In fact the Communists fear its atrocities being brought to the light of the day before foreign journalists and reporters. Secondly, a lot of reporters have not departed yet because there will be the Party Congress held soon. Presumably, these detainees will be confined for another period of time.”
Chang Xong-Fa said, the CCP now deems those who expose the dark side of the government terrorists. [Recording] “I also heard from a Shanghai petitioner that some police officers now told him that those exposing the dark side of the government officials are terrorists”. How terrifying is this statement? They regard our revealing its sinister side as terrorism, an absolute antithesis for crackdowns.”
Mr. Chang believes that the human rights torch relay that has been spreading throughout China, initiated by the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong, will eventually help ordinary people in China understand the concept of human rights and human spirit. [Recording]: “The Human Rights Torch Relay has spread to Shanghai, now, it’s up to us now how to understand human rights and the human spirit, and how to gain true freedom.” “What are the basic human rights? They are our rights to live and rights to freedom. Other rights we are entitled to subside, for our rights to live and freedom have been deprived. In fact, there are many detained or confined prisoners of conscience we want to rescue. But now it seems it is very remote.”
Chang Xong-Fa said that Communist officials do not abide by the law, so ordinary peoples’ rights cannot be protected by using legal weapons. [Recording] “If they do not comply with the law, then, what use is there for the vulnerable groups to refer to the law as protection? No use at all. Thus, we very much need our basic human rights.”
Following the closure of the Beijing Olympics, the Chinese Communists continue to suppress petitioners who safeguard their rights.

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