Crime: “conspiracy to commit subversion” Length of Punishment: 10 years Court: High Court, Hong Kong SAR Trial Date: 6 February 2023-May 30, 2024 (113 days) Sentencing Date: November 19, 2024 Dates of Detention/Arrest/Indictment: January 6, 2021 (arrest), January 7, 2021 (bail), February 28, 2021 (charged) Place of Incarceration: Stanley Prison, Hong Kong Verdict: HKSAR v NG Ching-hang (read more…)
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Crime: “inciting separatism” Length of Punishment: 14 years Court: Kardze Intermediate Court, Sichuan Province Trial Date: Unknown Sentencing Date: Unknown date in September 2022 Dates of Detention/Arrest/Indictment: March 2021 detained, date of arrest and indictment unknown Place of Incarceration: Unknown Gangkye Drubpa Kyab is a Tibetan writer and teacher whose published works include a book detailing the (read more…)
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Crime: “separatism,” “leaking state secrets,” and “organizing an illegal demonstration” Length of Punishment: Life sentence, reduced to 19 years and 8 months Court: Urumqi Intermediate Court Trial Date: Unknown date in April 2010 Sentencing Date: Unknown date in April 2010 Dates of Detention/Arrest/Indictment: July 14, 2009 (detained), arrest and indictment dates unknown Place of Incarceration: Xinjiang No. (read more…)
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Crime: Unknown Length of Punishment: 20 years Court: Lhasa Intermediate Court, Tibet Trial Date: Unknown Sentencing Date: Unknown date in 2010 Dates of Detention/Arrest/Indictment: Forcibly disappeared in 2008, exact date of criminal detention, arrest, and indictment unknown Place of Incarceration: Unknown Kunchok Nyima is a Tibetan monk and scholar from the Drepung Monastery. The Lhasa Intermediate Court (read more…)
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Crime: Unknown Length of Punishment: 20 years Court: Shigatse Intermediate Court, Tibet Trial Date: Unknown Sentencing Date: Unknown date in September 2020 Dates of Detention/Arrest/Indictment: Detained in August or September 2019, exact date of criminal detention, arrest, and indictment unknown Place of Incarceration: Unknown Choegyal Wangpo is a Tibetan monk from the Tengdro Monastery. In September 2020, (read more…)
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Crime: “separatism” Length of Punishment: Life sentence Court: Unknown intermediate court in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Trial Date: Unknown date in December 2018 Sentencing Date: Unknown Dates of Detention/Arrest/Indictment: Forcibly disappeared in December 2017, exact dates of criminal detention, arrest and indictment unknown Place of Incarceration: Unknown Appeal hearing date: Unknown Appeal court: Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (read more…)
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Huang Qi 黄琦*Under medical watch Current Detention Criminal charges: Illegally providing state secrets to foreign entities, Intentionally leaking state secrets Length of Punishment: 12 years (3 years for intentially leaking state secrets & 11 years for illegally providing state secrest to foreign entities) Court: Mianyang City Intermediate Court Trial Date: January (read more…)
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Xu Zhiyong (许志永), a prominent Beijing professor and rights activist, had his home searched and personal properties confiscated by police before he was taken away in July 2013. Before that, Beijing police had subjected Xu to unlawful house arrest for over four months. One of his lawyers has consistently been (read more…)
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Ding Jiaxi (丁家喜), a Beijing-based rights lawyer, was taken into custody in April 2013 after police raided his home, office, and car. Ding was involved in an anti-corruption campaign that started that spring with calls for the disclosure of top Chinese officials’ financial assets. Police had been closely monitoring his (read more…)
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Beijing police seized Ilham Tohti from his home in January 2014. He was arrested in February on a charge of “splittism” after Xinjiang authorities had held him incommunicado for weeks. In September, Ilham Tohti was tried and sentenced to life imprisonment, in a case rife with human rights and due (read more…)
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