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For Steadfast Resistance to Evil at Great Personal Risk

Columbia University Chinese Author Wins 2012 Civil Professor Philip Bobbitt Courage Prize for Leading Freedom and to Deliver Keynote Pro-democracy Efforts in

Address at Ceremony u Jie, of , China, will hilip Bobbitt, receive this year’s Civil Courage Pthe Herbert YPrize Medal and a prize of Wechsler Professor $50,000 granted by The Train Foundation. of Jurisprudence at Mr. Yu, an award-winning writer, is a Columbia Univer - notable figure in Chinese pro-democracy sity and the Director and freedom efforts and a co-author of of the Center on , a manifesto calling on the National Security Communist Party of China to adopt an promised to use his new-found freedom at the Columbia Law School, will give independent legal system, eliminate to “put forth my voice on the broader the keynote address at the Civil one-party rule, respect human rights and international platform on behalf of the Courage Prize Ceremony this October enact other reforms. struggle for democracy and freedom in 17th in . Professor Bob - Yu Jie is well known as a close asso - China”. He has stated that he plans bitt, whose scholarly interests include ciate and biographer of the 2010 Nobel to continue his influence in China constitutional law and interpretation, Peace Laureate, . Though through the use of the Internet and his international security and the history of long a target of negative attention from Twitter account, which has over 38,000 strategy, also serves as a Senior Fellow the Chinese authorities, Mr. Yu has suf - followers. at the Robert S. Strauss Center for In - fered from a lengthy period of constant Mr. Yu’s multiple writings are ternational Security and Law at the harassment, a year of house arrest and censored in China, he having been put University of Texas. eventually life-threatening torture, on a blacklist of banned authors, but Professor Bobbitt has served the beginning shortly after the announce - continue to be published abroad. Mr. U.S. government during six adminis - ment of Mr. Liu’s Nobel Prize. Mr. Yu’s Yu has been described as ‘very blunt trations, both Democratic and Republi - abuse included brutal physical beatings about the shortcomings of Chinese can, including acting as Associate and burns, and death threats which politics and society’, with one of his Counsel to the President of the United eventually led, on his release, to his essays comparing China to the story States, for which he received the Presiden - move earlier this year to the United of the Emperor Who Had No Clothes tial Certificate of Merit, as the Counselor States, where he has applied for asylum with the Chinese people ‘so cowed by on International Law at the U.S. State and now continues to write. Mr. Yu political intimidation that they dare Department and Senior Director for speculates that he was allowed to leave not speak simple truths’. His first Strategic Planning at the National the country because the authorities book, Fire and Ice, was reviewed as a Security Council. He presently serves believed he would be less of a threat ‘scathing work of social and political on the Advisory Committee on living abroad during this year of criticism’ and he was subjected to many International Law to continued on page 2 leadership change in China. He has interrogations and continued on page 2 TFCivilCourageNewsV8-2-p6:TF - Civil Courage Newsletter 8/30/12 1:08 PM Page 2

Letter from the Chairman Chinese Author Yu Jie Wins 2012 Civil Courage Prize hen the Civil Courage Prize began, inspired and encouraged Wby Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, our great national strategic con - continued from page 1 threats from the authorities for cern was the threat presented by the Soviet Union, which had gobbled his critical biography of China’s Premier, entitled up much of Europe, and was applying tremendous pressure to many if China’s Best Actor: Wen Jiabo. Another thorn for not most other countries. We helped Solzhenitsyn get the Templeton the authorities has been his latest book, a biography Prize, worth as much as the Nobel, and accompanied him to Bucking - of Mr. Liu, now serving an 11-year prison sentence, ham Palace to receive it. Solzhenitsyn’s writings did a lot to destroy which was recently published in . Mr. the reputation of communism. Yu is currently working on a critique of Hu Jintao, Times have changed, and according to this year’s Civil Courage the President of China, which he expects to publish Prize winner, with the Soviet Union gone, China is the next threat. in Hong Kong this year. Here is what he writes: Mr. Yu, who wrote his first book at age 13 and “I arrived in the a month ago, thinking that I had escaped went on to receive a Master’s in Literature from the reach of Beijing, only to realize that the Chinese government’s in 2000, portrays himself as a shadow continues to be omnipresent. Several U.S. universities that I ‘true patriot’ and a ‘truth-teller’. He describes his have contacted dare not invite me for a lecture, as they cooperate with path to becoming a political dissident as a culmi - China on many projects. If you are a scholar of Chinese studies who nation of three different influences: his experience has criticized the Communist Party, it would be impossible for you to of hearing about Tiananmen Square on the BBC be involved in research projects with the Chinese-funded Confucius and as a high school student in Institute, and you may even be denied a Chinese visa. Conversely, if Chengdu; his meeting and subsequent collaboration you praise the Communist Party, not only would you receive ample with Liu Xiaobo in 1999; and his conversion to research funding but you might also be invited to visit China and even Christianity in 2003. be received by high-level officials. Western academic freedom has been In addition to his writings, Mr. Yu has been distorted by invisible hands. involved in working with other Chinese writers to I believe that China is a far greater threat than the former Soviet organize the Independent Chinese PEN Center, Union ever was: unfortunately, the West lacks visionary politicians, such as Ronald Reagan, to stand up to this threat. serving as its vice-president from 2005-7. He has The Chinese Communist Party remains a tiger that will bite. For also helped to organize Chirstian ‘house churches’, working on human rights with Liu Xiaobo, after he was awarded the and worked to defend the rights of China's Nobel Prize, I was tortured by the country’s secret police and nearly minorities, especially religious rights. In 2010, lost my life. Since then, dozens of lawyers and writers have been sub - MSNBC named Mr. Yu as one of China’s ten lead - jected to brutal torture; some contracted severe pneumonia after ing dissidents. being held in front of fans blowing cold air and then being baked by an electric furnace. The secret police threatened me, saying that they had a list of 200 anti-Communist Party intellectuals whom they were Bobitt to Deliver Keynote Speech ready to arrest and bury alive. Over the past year, the number of political at Civil Courage Prize Ceremony prisoners in China has increased, and the jail sentences have become longer, yet Western voices of protest have become weaker. continued from page 1 the Secretary of State. Harsh internal repression and unrestrained external expansion are The author of many essays and articles and of two sides of the same coin. The Chinese Communist Party recently seven published books, Professor Bobbitt’s works vetoed the U.N. Security Council’s resolution on because include: Constitutional Fate: Theory of the Constitution; killings, not unlike those committed by Damascus, continue in Tibet.” The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace and the Course of My own view is that China, like Russia formerly, has much to fear History ; and, most recently, Terror and Consent: the from internal unrest, but that the U.S. and China are not natural ene - Wars for the Twenty-First Century . His forthcoming mies, and should be friends. book, My Robes of State: Machiavelli and the World He Made , will be published in 2013. He is also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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Recent News of Past Winners 2005 CCP winner of Burma, 2009 CCP winner Aminatou who had been sentenced to 65 years in jail, was Haidar of the finally released from prison in January of this year. received further intimidation and Min Ko Naing, a prominent leader of the 1988 shocking news when her teenage student protest movement, was probably the most children were beaten by unidentified important dissident still in jail to be released by the assailants in July of this year, while trav - extensive government amnesty of political prison - eling by bus from Agadir in Morocco to ers. President Thein Sein said the newly freed prisoners could “play a constructive El Aiun in the Western Sahara. The role in the political process”, and the move was hailed by many as a significant attack, not the first harassment they breakthrough for reform by Burma. Nevertheless, there was some concern as to have suffered, is seen as part of a larger how much freedom the released prisoners would have and opposition groups noted pattern of abuse against Sahrawi that there were still more than 1000 political prisoners in custody. Min Ko Naing, children, provoked by continued racist himself, was met by a crowd of well-wishers on his release and spent the next few media coverage in Morocco. As yet, no days thanking supporters, but also urging that they continue to press for further, official investigation into the incident tangible reform. has been reported.

2011 CCP winner Ribeiro of has reported receiving new death threats from, as yet, unknown sources, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, which called on the Mexican government to increase their efforts to ensure her security. Ms. Cacho has also reported the closing of her women’s shelter in Cancun due to a shortage of funds to maintain it. In more positive news, Ms. Cacho was a recipient of the 2011 Olaf Palme Prize for International Understanding and Common Security for her “tireless and often lonely efforts to expose criminal networks despite great personal risk”.

With Special Thanks to Civil Courage Prize Nominators 2011-2012

Andrew Apostolou Mahmood Elahi Imaad Al-Islam Samuel Augustine Rev Robert and Mrs. of Freedom House of Pakistani Hoslamand of Islam Channel Quarshie Maurine Tobin Alberta Arthurs Khawateen Network Musa Klebnikov of Mt. Sinai Methodist of Episcopalian Diocese (PHKN) Church, Lapaz of MA of Arthurs.us of The Train Foundation David Asman Fernanda Katz Ellenberg Perry Link Prudhui Raj John Train of Robert F. Kennedy Center of Blue Cross Youth Sava of The Train Foundation of Fox News of University of California, Sangham Matarr Suraa Baldeh Giovanni Ferrero Riverside William J. vanden Former Italian Ambassador of Education for All Cam - Cat Lucas Tashir Rashid Huevel of Vite-n-Hope of Allen & Company paign Network, The Gambia Karen Fitzgerald of English PEN Jeff Cassin of Ashoka Jharana Mishra Carter Roberts Marcel van der Heijden of World Wildlife Fund of Hivos of Breslow & Walker, LLP Christian Fuller of Bharat Integrated Social Patsy Davis Vartan Gregorian Welfare Agency Mahesh Ruparelia Robert Varenik of Rescue Foundation of Open Society Justice of Baptist World Alliance of Carnegie Corporation Justice VS Malimath Initiative Women's Dept of NY former Chief Justice of Thomas A. Russo Atine Denish Nouha Ghosn Karnataka and Kerala Gaurav Saigal Janet Walsh High Courts of Human Rights Watch of Akalo Poverty Reduction of Women's International Maria Salazar-Ferro Organisation League for Peace and Jay Nordlinger of Committee to Protect Elie Weisel Freedom of National Review of Boston University Bob Dietz Journalists of Committee to Protect Smitha Hanumantha Michael Posner Jesseca Salky Sarah Leah Whitson Journalists of Ashoka of US Department of State of Human Rights Watch of Russell & Volkening, Inc. Estelle Disch Jane Harmen Nancy Prager Kamel John Silbersack Christoph Wilcke of University of of Woodrow Wilson Interna - of Strategic Expansion of Human Rights Watch of Trident Media Group Massachusetts, Boston tional Center for Scholars Partners Mickey Spiegel Paul Wolfowitz of American Enterprise Joyce Dubensky Kyle Horner/ Melissa Pros of Human Rights Watch of Tannenbaum Center for Sharon Kelly of HQ US EU COM Institute for Public Policy Interreligious Understanding of Connect Church/ Willy Mushing Tamfu Research Wave Church of University of Ngaoundere Adamawa Region

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The Train Foundation Past Honorees Trustees and Officers The Hon. John Train 2011 2003 Trustee, Chairman Defender of Victims of Human Trafficking Battler against the burning and Ambassador Edward Streator in other abuse of Pakistani women Trustee, President Lydia Cacho Ribeiro 2002 Antunez Ariadne Calvo-Platero Champion of Abused Women Trustee, Vice-President and Children in Mexico Champion of freedom, Musa T. Klebnikov 2010 Gustavo Arcos Bergnes Trustee, Secretary Steadfast advocate for peace in the Middle East (Honorable Mention) Early democracy activist, Cuba Louis N. Bickford 2009 Trustee Champion of the non-violent campaign for 2001 Ambassador John Menzies self-determination in Western Sahara Editor and journalist fighting Trustee tyranny in 2008 Enid C. B. Schoettle Egyptian author and journalist. Voice Trustee 2000 Natasa Kandic for peace and reason in the Middle East Ann Brownell Sloane Persecuted journalist and activist, Trustee 2007 Belgrade Sumner Gerard III Imprisoned in China for guiding North Sergei Khodorovich Treasurer Korean refugees in their escape to freedom (Honorable Mention) Solzhenitsyn collaborator exiled Thomas Hiner, Esq. 2006 Rafael Marques de Morais to hard labor in Siberia Counsel Journalist who exposed the slaughter Nina Train Choa of Angolans and the plundering Pastor † Advisor of national assets Anti-Nazi martyr Lisa Train 2005 Min Ko Naing Judge † Advisor Imprisoned campaigner Assassinated while prosecuting the Sicilian Mafia Civil Courage Prize Advisors for democracy in Burma † Ambassador Glenn R.W. Babb Fearless reporter on atrocities Civil rights lawyer, assassinated George Biddle in Chechnya, assassinated while defending accused persons in Northern Ireland The Hon. Hodding Carter III † Sir Robert Wade-Gery Exposed disappearances and corruption † in , assassinated Lawyer and educator, Past Trustees and Advisors killed by a suicide bomber 2004 while working for solutions to Dr. John Chipman Imprisoned for exposing assassinations Tamil-Sri Lankan conflict Robert P. DeVecchi of Iranian intellectuals Raoul Wallenberg† The Hon. Richard J. Goldstone Saved thousands of Jews from Virginia Armat Hurt Lawyer persecuted for demanding extermination The Hon. Jeane J. Kirkpatrick constitutional reform in † = posthumous Kumi Naidoo Abdul al-Latif al-Mayah† John Dimitri Panitza Iraqi political scientist and human Senator Claiborne Pell rights advocate, assassinated John Temple Swing Patrons The Civil Courage Prize honors civil courage—steadfast resistance to evil at great Mr. and Mrs. Richard Gilder personal risk—rather than military valor. The acts so recognized should have taken place Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn deliberately over time. Nominations for the Prize are solicited primarily from non-profit, non-governmental organizations worldwide. Further information may be obtained from our website: www.civilcourageprize.org. “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” —Edmund Burke

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