D. L. Kung
ASIN: B006UT0HSK
Publisher: Eyes and Ears Editions
Pages: 75
"Dear Mr. Rogge" is a three-act play, both funny and uplifting, about the Chinese writer in detention, He Depu. In 2008 the imprisoned He Depu fought off depression and illness to smuggle out a letter challenging International Olympics Committee President Jacques Rogge to walk from the Birds Nest Arena to Beijing Prison No. 2 to check the truth of his claim that the Olympics would be a catalyst for only good.The truth was that the Games caused these inmates only increased physical and mental torture. He Depu had survived beatings and deprivation. Dangerously, the very fact of being sponsored overseas by an NGO emboldened him; he now risked possibly lethal retaliation with his daring appeal. Chinese diplomats in Geneva warned his advocates that the prisoner would pay a price for continued resistance. In an eerie mirroring of events in China, his Swiss advocate at the Human Rights Council ...