IMPP Report: Report on Chinese government's Violation of Ms. Taoli's Human Rights

Ms. Taoli's is wife of Mr. Temtsiltu (also known as Xi Haiming), a prominent dissident from Inner Mongolia. He was the student leader during the 1981 student movement in Inner Mongolia and the founder of the Inner Mongolian League for the Defense of Human Rights. In 1993, he took refuge in Germany and granted political asylum there. In 1997, he and other Mongols from Inner Mongolia established the Inner Mongolian People's Party (IMPP, www.innermonoglia.org). He is the chairman of the IMPP. In Dec. 1995, Ms. Taoli was allowed to came to Germany to re-unite with her husband, due to the German government intervenes. Ms. Taoli holds a valid Chinese passport.

2 years' ago Ms. Taoli's father (73 years old) was diagnosed with advanced stage of liver cancer. To see her father one last time, Ms. Taoli headed Inner Mongolia in late June, 1998. But her entrance to China was rejected by the Chinese authorities. She was detained for a night at the Beijing airport and sent back to Germany by force. After returning to Germany, Ms. Taoli wrote to the Chinese Embassy and visited the Embassy several times asking for the permission to visit her father, but the Embassy didn't give her a explicit response. Ms Taoli also wrote to the Foreign Ministry of Germany for help and Chinese Embassy never responded to the Foreign Ministry's inquiry.

Ms. Taoli was forcibly returned to the airplane from the customs office of the airport by over 30 police and when she tried to leave the airplane, the Chinese police tied her up onto the cabin door. Later when she managed to free herself and come outside the plane, the police strangled her with her scarf and threatened her with death. The German Airline captain was told that the airplane would not leave the airport if he refuse to take her onboard. So the captain had to ask Ms. Taoli to give up her effort, for the sake of all other over 300 passengers who were eager to go home for Christmas.

When the crew offered her their cellular phone to call her parents, the Chinese police also intervened. The Chinese police also try to take away the medicine Ms. Taoli brought for her father, when she left the medicine to the German airline representative in Beijing to pass on to her father. During the entire course of incident, Ms. Taoli's left arm, right-hand wrist and left leg was hurt by the Chinese police. Ms. Taoli's 2 trip to China caused considerable economic loss to the Taoli family and also caused severe psychological damage to Ms. Taoli and her parents.

The action, which the Chinese government took against Ms. Taoli is inhuman and has violated her basic human rights. We ask all of you to pay attention this specific action of human rights violation by the Chinese government and the overall human rights situation in Inner Mongolia, which has been very critical and unfortunately, never received enough attention from the international community.

Thank you for your attention,