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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

China: Fear of torture and other ill-treatment: Abdushukur Qurban ...
5 December 2008

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 ...

Urgent Action       ASA 17/111/2008

Chine. Agissez pour Yuan Weijing
3 December 2008

Chine. Agissez pour Yuan Weijing

Document       ASA 17/100/2008

China: Act Now for Yuan Weijing
3 December 2008

China: Act Now for Yuan Weijing

Document       ASA 17/100/2008

China: Further information on death penalty/ imminent execution ...
2 December 2008

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 ...

Urgent Action       ASA 17/110/2008

Suggested recommendations to the 16 States in the fourth round of ...
1 December 2008

In this document Amnesty International makes recommendations to the governments of various states about ending torture, arbitrary arrests, the death penalty, for ...

Document       IOR 41/046/2008

China: Further information on death penalty/imminent execution: Wo ...
28 November 2008

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 ...

Urgent Action       ASA 17/109/2008

China: Fear of torture and other ill-treatment / Prisoner of ...
28 November 2008

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 ...

Urgent Action       ASA 17/107/2008

China: Further information on Death Penalty/Imminent execution: Wo ...
25 November 2008

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 ...

Urgent Action       ASA 17/106/2008

China: Death Penalty/Imminent execution: Wo Weihan (m)
21 November 2008

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 ...

Urgent Action       ASA 17/105/2008