20 July 2009 UA 194/09 – Incommunicado detention/Prisoner of conscience (PDF) CHINA – Ilham Tohti (m) Ilham Tohti, editor of the website Uighur Online and associate economics professor at Central Nationalities University in the Chinese capital, Beijing, has been held incommunicado by the authorities since 8 July. His whereabouts are unknown, and he is at [...]
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Urgent Action – Ilham Tohti (China)
Posted in China, Urgent Action, tagged Uighurs on July 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
AI urges China to investigate crackdown of protests in Xinjiang
Posted in AI press release, China, tagged Uighurs on July 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Press release 6 July 2009 China: Fair and impartial investigation must be launched in Urumqi Amnesty International today called on the authorities in Urumqi to immediately launch an independent and impartial investigation into reports that 140 people were killed when a protest turned violent late on Sunday. “The Chinese authorities must fully account [...]
AI’s response to Uighur detainees transferred to Bermuda
Posted in AI press release, China, Counter Terror with Justice, Guantanamo Bay, USA, tagged Uighurs on June 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Amnesty International 15 June 2009 AI Index: AMR 51/076/2009 USA: Human rights must transcend party politics On 11 June 2009 four Uighur detainees held without charge or trial in the US Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba since 2002 were transferred to Bermuda. Their transfer came more than eight months after a US federal [...]
Palau’s offer to accept Guantánamo detainees would not excuse USA
Posted in AI press release, China, Counter Terror with Justice, Guantanamo Bay, USA, tagged Uighurs on June 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE 10 June 2009 Guantánamo: Palau’s offer to accept detainees would not excuse USA Reports that the government of Palau has offered to temporarily accept up to 17 Guantánamo detainees leave many questions unanswered and even if the offer is taken up it would not relieve the US authorities of their responsibility [...]
Update on Urgent Action – Huang Qi (China)
Posted in China, Urgent Action, tagged Huang Qi on June 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
4 June 2009 Further Information on UA 172/08 (18 June 2008) – Incommunicado detention/fear of torture and other ill-treatment and new concern: medical concern CHINA – Huang Qi (m), aged 46, human rights activist During a 26 May visit by his lawyer, Sichuan human rights activist Huang Qi claimed that he had been questioned for [...]
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