Collectif Chine JO 2008, a coalition of nine French NGOs, has urged the Chinese government to implement 8 specific reforms: (1) free people imprisoned since the 1989 Tiananmen demonstrations and all prisoners of conscience; (2) end media / Internet censorship; (3) suspend all executions pending the abolition of the death penalty; (4) abolish the practice of administrative detention; (5) end the routine use of torture; (6) allow freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining for trade unions; (7) repeal Article 306 of the penal code which exposes lawyers to repression; and (8) end the practice of forced evictions.





