Open Letter to the 16th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party

The Open Letter to the 16th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party was a petition from political activists in the People's Republic of China which urged the Chinese Communist Party to introduce political reforms.

There were 192 signatories to the letter of a letter in November 2002, which was posted on the Internet calling on the 16th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party to introduce political reforms.

6 Demands
The Chinese authorities reacted to its publication with an immediate clampdown and arrest of the more prominent political activists who had signed the letter.
 * political rehabilitation of the 1989 pro-democracy movement
 * the right of political exiles to return from abroad
 * release Zhao Ziyang from house arrest and restore his political rights
 * the release of jailed political prisoners
 * ratification of the International Covenant on Political and Civil Rights
 * the holding of free elections

The following notable co-signatories, He Depu, Jiang Lijun, Zhao Changqing, Ouyang Yi, Sang Jiancheng, Han Lifa, and Dai Xuezhong, have been tried for "subversion".