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China: Human rights defender risks torture: Zhao Lianhai
4 February 2010

Zhao Lianhai, a man seeking justice for families affected by a tainted milk powder scandal in 2008, was detained on 13 November and is now in custody awaiting trial ...

Urgent Action       ASA 17/007/2010

China: Further information: Chinese pro-democracy writer released
27 January 2010

Zhao Shiying, independent writer and detained signatory of Charter 08, was released and returned home on 25 January 2010. He remains under surveillance by police ...

Urgent Action       ASA 17/006/2010

China: Further information: Pro-democracy activist jailed in China
21 January 2010

On 15 January, Chinese pro-democracy activist Zhou Yongjun was sentenced to nine years' imprisonment for fraud. Amnesty International believes that his conviction ...

Urgent Action       ASA 17/005/2010

China: Chinese man faces death penalty
15 January 2010

A Chinese man, Gan Jinhua, has lost an appeal against a death sentence which he claims is a result of a confession extracted through torture. The Supreme People's ...

Urgent Action       ASA 17/004/2010

China: Chinese pro-democracy writer detained
14 January 2010

Zhao Shiying (better known by his pen name Zhao Dagong), a writer who has called for democratic reform in China, was taken from his home in the city of Shenzhen ...

Urgent Action       ASA 17/003/2010

China: Further information: Tibetan filmmaker jailed after unfair ...
8 January 2010

Tibetan filmmaker Dhondup Wangchen was sentenced to six years' imprisonment on 28 December for "subversion of state power," after a secret, unfair trial by Xining ...

Urgent Action       ASA 17/002/2010

China: Further information: Akmal Shaikh has been executed
4 January 2010

Akmal Shaikh was put to death by lethal injection on 29 December, in a prison in Urumqi.

Urgent Action       ASA 17/001/2010

China: China to execute Akmal Shaikh on 29 December
23 December 2009

British national Akmal Shaikh has exhausted all his appeals against his drug-smuggling conviction. According to the UK Foreign Office, he is scheduled to be executed ...

Urgent Action       ASA 17/074/2009

China: Risk of torture for 17-year old in China
15 December 2009

Noor-Ul-Islam Sherbaz, a 17-year old boy, has been held incommunicado since 27 July in Urumqi, capital of the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in western ...

Urgent Action       ASA 17/071/2009

China: Urumqi justice! Independent investigation into 2009 unrest ...
11 December 2009

In this petition, to the Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, the signatories express their concern about the death and injury ...

Document       ASA 17/070/2009