WASHINGTON (AP, May 11, 98) - Urging a strong alliance against repressive Asian governments, three prominent dissidents joined a Capitol Hill ceremony Monday marking the fourth anniversary of Vietnamese Human Rights Day.

They pressed Vietnam to release thousands of political prisoners, including Dr. Nguyen Dan Que, founder of the Nonviolent Movement for Human Rights in Vietnam. He is serving a 20-year sentence for anti-government activities.

Wei Jengsheng, who spent 18 years in China's prisons for pro-democracy activities, told an audience of mainly Vietnamese-Americans that human rights concerned all the people of China, North Korea, Vietnam and Myanmar, previously known as Burma.

``Human rights is the same for all of us,'' he said in Chinese, which an interpreter translated. ``We must work closely together against the oppressors and dictators'' in these countries.

Also speaking out were Harry Wu, another former Chinese political prisoner, and Sein Winn, president of the National Government in exile of Myanmar.

Wu said the Chinese and Vietnamese governments were promoting economic liberalization to cling to power: ``We must expose them so that communism disappears from Asia as it has from other parts of the world.''

Sen. Charles Robb, D-Va., who sponsored the ceremony in the ornate Senate Caucus Room, predicted higher level talks regarding the prisoners now that the United States has restored diplomatic relations with Vietnam.

Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va., said U.S. business and trade relations with Vietnam should not proceed until the prisoners are freed.

Harry Dunphy