USEFUL LINKS
For more information concerning Charter 08 and the Chinese Communist Parties disregard for human rights please see the following links:
Founded by Chinese students and scholars in March 1989, Human Rights in China (HRIC) is an international, Chinese, non-governmental organization with a mission to promote international human rights and advance the institutional protection of these rights in the People’s Republic of China. http://www.hrichina.org/public/
Amnesty UK is a pressure group that works to promote human rights worldwide. 
Amnesty International will continue to campaign on 'Human Rights for China'; and will keep urging the Chinese authorities to step up their human rights reforms in line with the promises they made in 2001. http://www.amnesty.org.uk/china/
Video on the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LPksYo2WUQ
White paper on the invasion and occupation of Tibet
http://www.tibet.com/WhitePaper/white5.html
Over 300 members of International PEN, the world writers' association, have joined together to protest against the ongoing detention of prominent Chinese dissident writer Liu Xiaobo by the Chinese authorities . Mr Liu is a founder and signatory of Charter 08, he was arrested on 8 December 2008, two days before the Charter was issued. http://www.internationalpen.org.uk/ipfarcry/conjuror/%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20/go/freedom-of-expression/world-authors-call-on-chinese-authorities-to-release-dissident-writer
A glossary of the history of China's communist revolution: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/special_report/1999/09/99/china_50/gang.htm
To watch Zeng Jinyan's acceptance on behalf of her husband Hu Jia, the winner of the European Parliament's Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7r5vv_sakharov-prize-award-08-hu-jia-mess_news
A young Falun Gong woman spent 35 months recently in a Chinese prison camp, 14 months in solitary confinement and once deprived of sleep for 40 days. She was beaten and tortured in different ways. This is China. Interviewed by Edward Mcmillan-Scott. She is now in Canada. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh0xifZVFvE