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China: Medical concern/fear of torture or other ill-treatment ...
2 March 2009

Falun Gong practitioner Ouyang Wen began a two-year term of Re-education Through Labour (RTL) in June 2008. While in custody her eyesight began to deteriorate, ...

Urgent Action       ASA 17/008/2009

People's Republic of China: Imminent Execution: Du Yimin (f)
13 February 2009

Businesswoman Du Yimin was sentenced to death in March 2008. Her appeal was rejected on 13 January 2009, and her sentence will now be reviewed by the Supreme People's ...

Urgent Action       ASA 17/007/2009

China: Authorities urged to withdraw rules limiting press freedom
10 February 2009

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PUBLIC STATEMENT. AI Index: ASA 17/006/2009. 10 February 2008. China: Authorities urged to withdraw rules limiting press freedom. ...

Document       ASA 17/006/2009

China: Further information on arbitrary detention/ fear of torture ...
6 February 2009

According to the US-based Radio Free Asia, Gao Zhisheng was taken away from his home in Shaanxi Province by more than 10 security agents on 4 February 2009. His ...

Urgent Action       ASA 17/005/2009

China: Arbitrary detention/Fear of torture and other ill-treatment ...
2 February 2009

Beijing-based human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, who has been under house arrest since November 2007, was taken into custody on or shortly after 19 January 2009. ...

Urgent Action       ASA 17/004/2009

China: Further Information on Fear of torture / incommunicado ...
22 January 2009

Chen Zhenping was sentenced in August 2008, after a secret trial, to eight years imprisonment for "using a heretical organization to subvert the law".

Urgent Action       ASA 17/002/2009

China: Further Information on Fear of torture or other ill ...
21 January 2009

On 7 January, legal activist Ji Sizun was sentenced by the Taijiang District People’s Court in Fuzhou, Fujian Province to three years’ imprisonment for “forging ...

Urgent Action       ASA 17/003/2009

China: Release Liu Xiaobo
2 January 2009

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. Public statement. Date: 2 January 2009. AI Index: ASA 17/001/2009. China: Release Liu Xiaobo. (Hong Kong) Amnesty ...

Document       ASA 17/001/2009

China: Fear of torture and other ill-treatment: Nami Jhaba (m)
19 December 2008

Tibetan former monk Nami Jhaba was detained by police on 19 April 2008, and has been held incommunicado since then. Police recently returned some of his possessions ...

Urgent Action       ASA 17/114/2008

China: Fear of torture or other ill-treatment/Prisoner of ...
5 December 2008

Prisoner of conscience Ji Sizun, from Fujian Province, was detained on 11 August in Beijing when he went to a police station to hand in an application to hold a ...

Urgent Action       ASA 17/112/2008