Jon Kamm to speak on China’s censorship, democracy April 7

The Associated Students Resource and Outreach Programs’ Social Issues Resource Center and the Ethnic Student Center club Chinese Student Association present “John Kamm: Democracy and Censorship in China” at 7 p.m. on April 7 in Academic Instruction Center West 210.

This event is free and open to the public.

The event will feature the personal narrative and observations of John Kamm, founder and executive director of The Dui Hua Foundation, about current human rights issues in China. He will discuss censorship, the future of dissent and political crime.

Kamm has worked on behalf of political and religious prisoners in China for more than 20 years, first as a businessman and later as the founder of The Dui Hua foundation. He has won two presidential awards for his human rights work and has received the MacArthur Fellowship.

The Dui Hua Foundation, according to its website, was established in April 1999, and is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the protection of universal human rights.

Reporter Tina Rosenberg of The New York Times wrote, “No other person or organization in the world, including the State Department, has helped more Chinese prisoners.”

For more information about the event, or for disAbility accommodations, contact Alekz Wray by phone at 360.650.6804 by e-mail at as.rop.sirc@wwu.edu.

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