{"id":3927,"date":"2017-09-14T15:02:22","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T15:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iuhrdf.org\/en\/2017\/09\/14\/rights-groups-ask-china-stop-detaining-its-critics-0\/"},"modified":"2017-09-14T15:02:22","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T15:02:22","slug":"rights-groups-ask-china-stop-detaining-its-critics-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/rights-groups-ask-china-stop-detaining-its-critics-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Rights groups ask China to stop detaining its critics"},"content":{"rendered":"
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GENEVA (Reuters) – Human rights activists called on China on Wednesday to stop detaining lawyers and critics, voicing concern for their health and fate in custody after the death of jailed Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo attracted international attention in July.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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China said the concerns had no basis in fact.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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The activists highlighted the case of Jiang Tianyong, a prominent human rights lawyer disbarred in 2009, who disappeared last November and was held incommunicado for six months.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Jiang\u2019s verdict is pending on charges of subversion, to which he confessed at a trial last month, saying he had been inspired to overthrow China\u2019s political system by workshops he attended overseas.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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\u201cThe trial can be reasonably called neither fair nor impartial. In just the most obvious violation of due process, Mr Jiang was shown in a televised confession on state media in March 2017,\u201d Sarah Brooks of International Service for Human Rights told the United Nations Human Rights Council.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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\u201cJiang\u2019s physical and psychological health are a subject of great concern, given the real risks of abuse in places of detention,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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A Chinese diplomat told the Council that China firmly objected to the accusations about its legal handling of Jiang\u2019s and other cases, and said the NGOs should respect Chinese law and give up \u201coutrageous tactics\u201d.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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\u201cJiang Tianyong is suspected of provoking trouble illegally, holding state secret documents, inciting subversion of the state and other criminal activities. He pleaded guilty,\u201d the diplomat said.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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China\u2019s treatment of dissidents stirred an outcry this year when Liu Xiaobo, serving an 11-year sentence for \u201cciting subversion of state power\u201d, died after being denied permission to leave the country for treatment for late-stage liver cancer.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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His wife, Liu Xia, has been under house arrest for six years and her whereabouts and condition since his death are unknown, Brooks said.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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\u201cMs Liu Xia currently has personal freedom,\u201d the Chinese diplomat told the Council, adding that China had picked the most qualified medical experts to treat Liu Xiaobo and given him medical parole.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Brooks also highlighted the case of Ilham Tohti, declared a case of arbitrary detention by a U.N. panel in 2014, who is serving a life sentence for \u201cseparatism\u201d.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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The Chinese diplomat said Ilham\u2019s crime was clear.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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\u201cIlham\u2019s case has nothing to do with human rights. He was trying to justify the acts of terror, divide the country and incite hatred, which no country could tolerate,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Zhang Qing, the wife of activist Guo Feixiong, told an NGO event in Geneva on Monday that he has suffered after being sentenced to six years in prison in late 2015. He conducted a 101-day hunger strike in 2016 to protest conditions.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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\u201cGuo has encountered a wide range of brutal and evil torture in jail, such as 13 days and nights of sleep deprivation, high-voltage taser to his private parts to extract a confession,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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