AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE 10 November 2009 China: Hasty executions highlight unfair Xinjiang trials Chinese authorities must ensure all individuals charged with offences during July riots in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) receive a fair trail and do not face the death penalty, Amnesty International said today. The China Daily reported today that authorities [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Uighurs’
Hasty executions in China highlight unfair Xinjiang trials
Posted in AI press release, China, Death penalty, tagged Uighurs on November 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Update on Urgent Action – Ilham Tohti (China)
Posted in China, Urgent Action, tagged Uighurs on August 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
28 August 2009 Further Information on UA 194/09 (20 July 2009) – Incommunicado detention/Fear of torture CHINA – Ilham Tohti (m) Ilham Tohti, editor of the website “Uighur Online” and associate economics professor at Central Nationalities University, was released on 23 August 2009 in Beijing, China’s capital. However, he remains under surveillance. Ilham Tohti was [...]
Urgent Action – Ilham Tohti (China)
Posted in China, Urgent Action, tagged Uighurs on July 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
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 [...]
