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 ...
Abdushukur Qurban, an ethnic Uighur and father of three, was detained on 21 November 2008 in Penjim Township, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR). In violation ...
Yang Jia was executed on 26 November 2008 after the Supreme People's Court approved his sentence on 21 November. According to news reports, his family had been ...
In this document Amnesty International makes recommendations to the governments of various states about ending torture, arbitrary arrests, the death penalty, for ...
Wo Weihan was executed by shooting in Beijing on the morning of 28 November 2008. His family was allowed to meet with him at the Beijing No 2 Intermediate People ...
Falun Gong practitioner Xu Na is at risk of torture or other ill-treatment. She was sentenced to three years in prison on 25 November for ‘crimes’ related to her ...
Wo Weihan’s family has received an oral confirmation that the Supreme People’s Court (SPC) has approved his death sentence. Wo Weihan’s family is scheduled to meet ...
Medical scientist Wo Weihan may be at imminent risk of execution. He was sentenced to death in May 2007 for spying after a closed trial in Beijing. On 18 November ...