Categories:*China
Businessman Wu Wai Sing (also known as Vincent Wu),
A Us National, Has Been Detained Since 22 June 2012, And Has Described Being Tortured By Police. More than 40 others were taken away by the police that day in connection with his case
Categories:*China
Falun Gong practitioner Wang Xiuqing, and her daughter Qin Hailong, have been detained without trial in Qiangjing Re-education through Labour (RTL) camp, Shandong Province, China. They are at risk of torture or other ill-treatment, particularly due to the authorities’ anger at the recent petition in support for their case within China.
Categories:*China
Li Wangling, sister of recently deceased prisoner of conscience Li Wangyang, and her husband Zhao Baozhu were detained on 7 June.
They have not been heard from since 9 June and their whereabouts are unknown.
Urumqi Riots three years on - crackdown on Uighurs grows bolder
Three years on from riots and mass arrests in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Chinese authorities continue to silence those speaking out on abuses during and in the wake of the unrest, Amnesty International said.
New testimony reveals that
dozens, if not hundreds, of the Uighur ethnic minority, many of whom were arrested in the wake of the riots, are still disappeared, and that the government continues to intimidate people - including families seeking information on their disappeared relatives - who reveal human rights abuses during and after the protests
http://www.amnesty.org/en/for-media/...der-2012-07-04