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China holds Uighur journalist over Xinjiang unrest remarks ...
30 October 2009

Hairat Niyaz has been detained since 1 October. He is thought at risk of torture and ill-treatment. Family and friends believe his detention is due to comments ...

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Crackdown on China's activists escalates ahead of 60th anniversary ...
30 September 2009

The government's increased surveillance, harassment and imprisonment of activists is to prevent them from raising human rights concerns that challenge the authorities ...

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Secretary General of World Uighur Congress denied entry to South ...
17 September 2009

Dolkun Isa is being held by the South Korean authorities. If he is deported to China he wouldbe at risk of arbitrary detention, unfair trial, torture and other ...

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China: NGO Worker Missing in China
1 September 2009

Zhuang Lu, a woman who works for the legal aid and research organization, the Open Constitution Initiative (OCI, known as Gongmeng in Chinese) in the Chinese capital ...

Urgent Action       ASA 17/051/2009

China: Free Sichuan earthquake activists | Amnesty International
11 August 2009

On the eve of the scheduled trial of Tan Zuoren on charges of “inciting subversion of state power”, Amnesty International urges the Chinese authorities to drop ...

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China Sichuan earthquake activists to be tried | Amnesty ...
4 August 2009

Two activists who offered assistance to survivors of the May 2008 earthquake in Sichuan province, China, will be tried this month behind closed doors.

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Le Fil. Août/Septembre 2009
1 August 2009

Newsletter       NWS 21/004/2009

More executions in Japan as other countries reject the death ...
31 July 2009

The recent hangings of three men brings the total number of executions carried out in Japan this year to seven, while other countries reject capital punishment.

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China: Free human rights defender Huang Qi
31 July 2009

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PUBLIC STATEMENT. 31 July 2009. AI Index: ASA 17/040/2009. China: Free human rights defender Huang Qi. Chinese ...

Document       ASA 17/040/2009

China: Human rights lawyer detained, tortured: Wang Yonghang
28 July 2009

Human rights lawyer Wang Yonghang, who has represented Falun Gong practitioners, has been held incommunicado since 4 July and reportedly beaten during interrogation ...

Urgent Action       ASA 17/036/2009