<div class="watermark" style="font-family: NSimSun, SimSun, PMingLiU, Arial, Helvetica, \’Arial Unicode MS\’, sans-serif; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; background-color: #ffffff;"><a href="http://gdb.voanews.com/5347BE15-FF82-4BA2-B183-7C1975425841_mw1024_n_s.jpg" rel="ibox" title="骆家辉(资料照)" style="text-decoration: none; color: #132fbe;"><img class="photo" alt="骆家辉(资料照)" border="0" src="http://gdb.voanews.com/5347BE15-FF82-4BA2-B183-7C1975425841_w640_r1_s.jpg" style="border-style: none; display: block; margin: 10px 0px;" /></a></div><span class="imageCaption" style="font-family: NSimSun, SimSun, PMingLiU, Arial, Helvetica, \’Arial Unicode MS\’, sans-serif; color: #666666; line-height: 13px; margin-top: -6px; padding-top: 0px; display: block; padding-bottom: 12px; clear: both; background-color: #ffffff;">骆家辉(资料照)</span><span style="font-family: NSimSun, SimSun, PMingLiU, Arial, Helvetica, \’Arial Unicode MS\’, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; background-color: #ffffff;">美国驻中国大使骆家辉星期四发表声明，对中国审判和起诉许志永等几名维权人士以及警方虐待采访审判的外国记者深表关注，并呼吁中国政府立即释放许志永和其他政治犯。以下是声明全文的中文译文：</span><br style="font-family: NSimSun, SimSun, PMingLiU, Arial, Helvetica, \’Arial Unicode MS\’, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; background-color: #ffffff;" /><br style="font-family: NSimSun, SimSun, PMingLiU, Arial, Helvetica, \’Arial Unicode MS\’, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; background-color: #ffffff;" /><span style="font-family: NSimSun, SimSun, PMingLiU, Arial, Helvetica, \’Arial Unicode MS\’, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; background-color: #ffffff;">​​​我对中国法律学者许志永1月22日受审和其他呼吁政府良治的人士被起诉是因为他们公开发起揭露官员腐败的运动并和平表达自己的观点而遭到报复而深感关注。</span><br style="font-family: NSimSun, SimSun, PMingLiU, Arial, Helvetica, \’Arial Unicode MS\’, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; background-color: #ffffff;" /><br style="font-family: NSimSun, SimSun, PMingLiU, Arial, Helvetica, \’Arial Unicode MS\’, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; background-color: #ffffff;" /><span style="font-family: NSimSun, SimSun, PMingLiU, Arial, Helvetica, \’Arial Unicode MS\’, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; background-color: #ffffff;">这些起诉是最新的事件，中国逮捕了一系列的公益律师、投入互联网活动的记者、宗教领袖和其他人士，他们以和平的方式挑战官方的政策和行为。</span><br style="font-family: NSimSun, SimSun, PMingLiU, Arial, Helvetica, \’Arial Unicode MS\’, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; background-color: #ffffff;" /><br style="font-family: NSimSun, SimSun, PMingLiU, Arial, Helvetica, \’Arial Unicode MS\’, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; background-color: #ffffff;" /><span style="font-family: NSimSun, SimSun, PMingLiU, Arial, Helvetica, \’Arial Unicode MS\’, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; background-color: #ffffff;">美国政府呼吁中国当局立即释放许志永和其他政治犯，停止对他们的行动自由施加的任何限制，并保障他们享有中国依照其国际人权义务所必须提供的保护和自由。</span><br style="font-family: NSimSun, SimSun, PMingLiU, Arial, Helvetica, \’Arial Unicode MS\’, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; background-color: #ffffff;" /><br style="font-family: NSimSun, SimSun, PMingLiU, Arial, Helvetica, \’Arial Unicode MS\’, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; background-color: #ffffff;" /><span style="font-family: NSimSun, SimSun, PMingLiU, Arial, Helvetica, \’Arial Unicode MS\’, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; background-color: #ffffff;">我对采访许志永审判案的外国记者受到警方虐待深感关注。我敦促中国当局采取措施，确保在华工作的外国记者能够依照国际承认的惯例履行他们的新闻职责 。</span><br />