【本报伦敦讯】 2026年4月19日，伦敦波特兰广场（Portland Place）上空云层低垂，凝重的空气仿佛预示着一场精神与强权的正面交锋。上午11时整，中国民主党英国总部的党员们身着肃穆，列队集结于中国驻英国大使馆对面。
此次集会并非寻常，其核心指向近日发生在中国国内的一场政治风暴：强烈抗议中共政权针对中国民主党北京党部党员的大规模抓捕行动。抗议者们手执写有“释放良心犯”、“民主无罪”等中英文标语的长幅，誓为铁窗内的同仁守望发声。
义理之争：背景深处的沉痛与坚守
此次抗议的导火索是北京总部多位核心成员的集体失联与入狱判刑！作为追求宪政民主的先锋，北京总部的党员们在极端狭窄的政治缝隙中艰难生存。近日的搜捕与迫害行动，不仅是对公民结社自由的野蛮践踏，更是对人类良知底线的公开挑战。
集会现场，中国民主党北京流亡党部主席，中国民主党欧洲总部筹备委员会副主席王蕴溥和英国总部负责人黄华发表了慷慨激昂的演说。他们共同指出：“北京的同仁们在强权的高压下，以肉身践行民主之理想。他们被捕，是因为他们道出了真相；他们受难，是因为他们承载了民族的希望。我们身处自由的英伦，绝不能让勇士的身影在黑暗中孤立无援。”
街头共鸣：路人接力，正义之声跨越国界
波特兰广场作为伦敦的政经腹地，往来行人络绎不绝。党员们通过分发传单、展示纪实图片，向过往的当地民众介绍中国政治异见人士所面临的生存危机。
在这一过程中，现场发生了一段令人屏息的感人场景。两位伦敦市民在经过抗议队伍时停下了脚步。其中的女士起初带着疑惑，但在阅读完手中的传单并聆听了党员用流利英文讲述的北京受难细节后，这位路人的神情由震惊转为愤慨。她婉拒了同伴的催促，毅然走到抗议人群中央，向组织者请求发言。当她接过麦克风的那一刻，现场陷入了短暂的寂静。这位异国他乡的普通市民，用他那充满磁性且高亢的声音，对着不远处那座庄严却冰冷的大使馆正门，领头喊出了最振聋发聩的口号：“Free China! Freedom of Speech!”（自由中国！言论自由！）
现场党员深受鼓舞，齐声应和，口号声在林立的建筑间回荡，形成了排山倒海般的气势。这一瞬间，国籍与文化的隔阂消失殆尽，普世价值的共鸣让正义的力量在波特兰广场上空久久盘旋。
殊途同归：曼城党员同日联动，南北共铸抗争长城
在伦敦总部举行集会的同一时刻
A Lone Cry of Righteous Anger, Its Voice Echoing Across the World: China Democracy Party UK Headquarters Holds Solemn Protest Outside the Chinese Embassy in the UK Against the CCP Government’s Heavy Sentencing of Seven Party Members
[London] On 19 April 2026, heavy clouds hung low over Portland Place in London, and the sombre air seemed to foreshadow a direct confrontation between spirit and power. At exactly 11 a.m., party members of the China Democracy Party UK Headquarters, dressed in solemn attire, assembled in orderly ranks opposite the Chinese Embassy in the United Kingdom.
This gathering was no ordinary one. Its central focus was a recent political storm unfolding inside China: a strong protest against the CCP regime’s large-scale crackdown on party members of the Beijing branch of the China Democracy Party. The protesters held long banners in Chinese and English bearing slogans such as “Release Prisoners of Conscience” and “Democracy Is Not a Crime”, vowing to keep watch and speak out for their comrades behind bars.
A struggle of principle: the grief and resolve behind the background
The immediate trigger for this protest was the collective disappearance, imprisonment and sentencing of several core members of the Beijing Headquarters. As pioneers in the pursuit of constitutional democracy, party members of the Beijing Headquarters have struggled to survive within an extremely narrow political space. The recent arrests and persecution are not only a brutal trampling of citizens’ freedom of association, but also an open challenge to the moral conscience of humanity.
At the protest, Wang Yunpu, Chair of the Beijing Exile Branch of the China Democracy Party and Vice-Chair of the Preparatory Committee of the China Democracy Party European Headquarters, together with Huang Hua, head of the UK Headquarters, delivered impassioned speeches. They jointly stated: “Our comrades in Beijing, under the crushing pressure of authoritarian power, have embodied the democratic ideal with their own flesh and blood. They were arrested because they spoke the truth; they are suffering because they carry the hope of the nation. We, living here in free Britain, must not allow these brave souls to stand alone and unsupported in the darkness.”
Resonance on the street: passers-by take up the call, as the voice of justice crosses borders
As the political and commercial heart of London, Portland Place sees a constant flow of passers-by. Through distributing leaflets and displaying documentary photographs, party members explained to local residents and visitors alike the precarious situation faced by political dissidents in China.
During this process, an especially moving moment unfolded. Two London residents stopped as they passed the protest line. One of them, a woman, at first looked puzzled. But after reading the leaflet in her hand and listening to a party member explain in fluent English the details of the suffering in Beijing, her expression changed from shock to indignation. She waved away her companion’s attempt to hurry her on, walked resolutely into the middle of the protest crowd, and asked the organisers if she could speak.
The moment she took the microphone, a brief silence fell over the scene. Then this ordinary citizen, far from home yet speaking out for others, lifted her strong and resonant voice and, facing the grand yet cold embassy gates not far away, led the crowd in the most thunderous of chants: “Free China! Freedom of Speech!”
The party members on site were deeply encouraged and responded in unison. Their chants echoed between the surrounding buildings, gathering into a wave of overwhelming force. In that moment, all barriers of nationality and culture disappeared. The shared resonance of universal values caused the power of justice to linger in the air above Portland Place.
Different roads, one destination: party members in Manchester mobilise on the same day, forging a wall of resistance from north and south
At the very same time as the gathering was taking place in London Headquarters…
