China: Further information on torture / health concern / unfair trial / fear of execution

China: Further information on torture / health concern / unfair trial / fear of execution

Index Number: ASA 17/028/2000
Date Published: 15 June 2000
Categories: Asia And The Pacific, China

Amnesty International is gravely concerned by a report which indicates that Zulikar Memet may have been secretly executed on 14 June 2000.. There has been no official confirmation of the fate of Hemit Memet (Zulikar's brother), Ilyas Zordun or Kasim Mapir, all of whom were deported from Kazakstan to China in February 1999 and subsequently imprisoned. All three men were reported in late August 1999 to have been executed. However, subsequent reports cast doubts on this news. .