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