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China: Further information: Lawyer jailed for defending human ...
4 December 2009

Human rights lawyer Wang Yonghang has been sentenced to seven years' imprisonment in connection with his work representing Falun Gong practitioners. He has appealed ...

Urgent Action       ASA 17/068/2009

China: Further information: Huang Qi jailed as prisoner of ...
1 December 2009

Human rights activist Huang Qi, who gave legal advice to victims of the 2008 earthquake in Sichuan province, has been sentenced to three years’ imprisonment following ...

Urgent Action       ASA 17/067/2009

China: Further information: Missing NGO worker returns home ...
24 November 2009

Zhuang Lu, a 27-year-old woman who worked for the Open Constitution Initiative (OCI, known as Gongmeng in Chinese), a legal aid and research organization, is now ...

Urgent Action       ASA 17/066/2009

China: Chinese activist at risk of torture
17 November 2009

Zhao Lianhai, father of a boy rendered ill by a batch of contaminated milk powder in China in 2008, has been campaigning for justice for other affected families ...

Urgent Action       ASA 17/064/2009

China: Further information: Nine executed in China
11 November 2009

Nine people - eight from the Uighur ethnic group and one of Han Chinese ethnicity - were executed in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in western China ...

Urgent Action       ASA 17/063/2009

China: Further information: Two Tibetan men executed
6 November 2009

Losang Gyaltse and Loyar were executed during October.

Urgent Action       ASA 17/062/2009

China: Prevent executions for Uighur unrest
2 November 2009

Nine people (apparently, eight Uighurs and one Han Chinese) have been sentenced to death for involvement in unrest earlier this year in western China. They have ...

Urgent Action       ASA 17/061/2009

China: Uighur journalist detained, risks torture
30 October 2009

Uighur journalist Hairat Niyaz was taken from his home on 1 October. On 4 October, police delivered a notice to his family which said he had been arrested for " ...

Urgent Action       ASA 17/060/2009

China: British man facing execution: Akmal Shaikh
19 October 2009

British national Akmal Shaikh, who is believed to be mentally ill, has been sentenced to death in China for drug-smuggling. He has now lost his appeal, and could ...

Urgent Action       ASA 17/059/2009

China: Chinese activist facing trial: Zhou Yongjun
16 October 2009

A Chinese man, pro-democracy activist Zhou Yongjun, who has been living in the USA since 1992, is about to be put on trial in Sichuan province, on a politically ...

Urgent Action       ASA 17/058/2009