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Wife of Chinese human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng: (My) Husband Was Secretly Sentenced and Inter-Provincially Imprisoned. The Law in China Is Merely “On Paper”.
(24 Jun) Chinese human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng, who assisted the arrestees of "709 Mass Arrests," was sentenced to four years in prison by the Xuzhou City Intermediate People's Court in China for "inciting subversion of state power”.
In an interview with The Stand News, Xu Yan, the wife of Yu Wensheng, criticized Chinese law is merely well-developed “on paper”, while it breached the legal system to “secretly sentence” her husband without even noticing his family and defence attorney in advance. Xu has met with officials from seven countries to ensure her husband's right to appeal and his right to see his family.
As a Beijing native, Xu was detained in Jiangsu Province in Xuzhou, which is 1600 km away from Beijing. Since Yu was arrested the year before last, Xu has been going to Xuzhou once every 20 days to petition and defend human rights, spending more than 100,000 Chinese Yuan on train tickets, food and accommodation, but she has not been able to see her husband. Despite facing all kinds of hardships, she persevered, “because I believe that my husband is innocent”.
//the law in China “on paper” is well-developed, where the constitution provides human rights such as freedom of speech, but since the case of Yu, she has not received any indictment and verdict, even a trial was held without informing his family or lawyers.
//she was held in a police station for 19 hours without food or water, and was once interrogated in a torture "tiger chair", unable to move for nine hours.
//what happened at home has hurt her son deeply, “He locks the door as soon as he gets home and sleeps in a tent, feeling insecure”
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https://telegra.ph/Wife-of-Chinese-human-rights-lawyer-Yu-Wensheng-My-Husband-Was-Secretly-Sentenced-and-Inter-Provincially-Imprisoned-The-Law-in-C-07-07
Source: Stand News
https://bit.ly/3f4fpe3
Translated by: Hong Kong Echo
Further reading:
Seized by the Police, an Outspoken Chinese Professor Sees Fears Come True
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/06/world/asia/china-detains-xu-zhangrun-critic.html
#humanrights #laywer #CCP #RuleOfLaw #NationalSecurityLaw #Torture #YuWensheng #709MassArrest
Wife of Chinese human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng: (My) Husband Was Secretly Sentenced and Inter-Provincially Imprisoned. The Law in China Is Merely “On Paper”.
(24 Jun) Chinese human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng, who assisted the arrestees of "709 Mass Arrests," was sentenced to four years in prison by the Xuzhou City Intermediate People's Court in China for "inciting subversion of state power”.
In an interview with The Stand News, Xu Yan, the wife of Yu Wensheng, criticized Chinese law is merely well-developed “on paper”, while it breached the legal system to “secretly sentence” her husband without even noticing his family and defence attorney in advance. Xu has met with officials from seven countries to ensure her husband's right to appeal and his right to see his family.
As a Beijing native, Xu was detained in Jiangsu Province in Xuzhou, which is 1600 km away from Beijing. Since Yu was arrested the year before last, Xu has been going to Xuzhou once every 20 days to petition and defend human rights, spending more than 100,000 Chinese Yuan on train tickets, food and accommodation, but she has not been able to see her husband. Despite facing all kinds of hardships, she persevered, “because I believe that my husband is innocent”.
//the law in China “on paper” is well-developed, where the constitution provides human rights such as freedom of speech, but since the case of Yu, she has not received any indictment and verdict, even a trial was held without informing his family or lawyers.
//she was held in a police station for 19 hours without food or water, and was once interrogated in a torture "tiger chair", unable to move for nine hours.
//what happened at home has hurt her son deeply, “He locks the door as soon as he gets home and sleeps in a tent, feeling insecure”
Full translation:
https://telegra.ph/Wife-of-Chinese-human-rights-lawyer-Yu-Wensheng-My-Husband-Was-Secretly-Sentenced-and-Inter-Provincially-Imprisoned-The-Law-in-C-07-07
Source: Stand News
https://bit.ly/3f4fpe3
Translated by: Hong Kong Echo
Further reading:
Seized by the Police, an Outspoken Chinese Professor Sees Fears Come True
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/06/world/asia/china-detains-xu-zhangrun-critic.html
#humanrights #laywer #CCP #RuleOfLaw #NationalSecurityLaw #Torture #YuWensheng #709MassArrest
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Wife of Chinese human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng: (My) Husband Was Secretly Sentenced and Inter-Provincially Imprisoned. The Law…
#Newspaper (24 Jun) Chinese human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng, who assisted the arrestees of "709 Mass Arrests," was sentenced to four years in prison by the Xuzhou City Intermediate People's Court in China for "inciting subversion of state power”. In an interview…
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#AmnestyInternational: #China has "created a dystopian hellscape on a staggering scale" in #Xinjiang
//“The Chinese authorities have created a dystopian hellscape on a staggering scale in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region,” said Agnès Callamard, Amnesty International’s Secretary General.
“Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other Muslim minorities face crimes against humanity and other serious human rights violations that threaten to erase their religious and cultural identities."
“It should shock the conscience of humanity that massive numbers of people have been subjected to brainwashing, torture and other degrading treatment in internment camps, while millions more live in fear amid a vast surveillance apparatus.”
From the moment they entered the prison-like internment camps, detainees’ lives were extraordinarily regimented. They had no privacy or autonomy, and they faced harsh punishments – sometimes collectively with their cellmates – for trivial disobedience. Internees were forbidden to speak freely to each other, and they were severely punished when they responded to prison guards or other officials in their native tongues instead of Mandarin. Every activity in the detainees’ daily routine was pre-ordained and their behaviour was constantly monitored and evaluated....
Every former detainee Amnesty International interviewed suffered torture or other ill-treatment.
This included the cumulative psychological effect of their daily dehumanization, as well as physical torture in the form of beatings, electric shocks, solitary confinement, deprivation of food, water and sleep, exposure to extreme cold, and the abusive use of restraints, including torture tools like tiger chairs. Some reported being restrained in a tiger chair for 24 hours or more...
The Chinese government has gone to extraordinary lengths to cover up its violations of international human rights law in Xinjiang. Authorities threaten, detain and mistreat anyone who speaks out...//
Read full article:
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/06/china-draconian-repression-of-muslims-in-xinjiang-amounts-to-crimes-against-humanity/
Source: Amnesty International #Jun10
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#Uyghurs #ConcentrationCamp #CCP #AgainstHumanity #Torture #Rape #MassSurveillance
#AmnestyInternational: #China has "created a dystopian hellscape on a staggering scale" in #Xinjiang
//“The Chinese authorities have created a dystopian hellscape on a staggering scale in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region,” said Agnès Callamard, Amnesty International’s Secretary General.
“Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other Muslim minorities face crimes against humanity and other serious human rights violations that threaten to erase their religious and cultural identities."
“It should shock the conscience of humanity that massive numbers of people have been subjected to brainwashing, torture and other degrading treatment in internment camps, while millions more live in fear amid a vast surveillance apparatus.”
From the moment they entered the prison-like internment camps, detainees’ lives were extraordinarily regimented. They had no privacy or autonomy, and they faced harsh punishments – sometimes collectively with their cellmates – for trivial disobedience. Internees were forbidden to speak freely to each other, and they were severely punished when they responded to prison guards or other officials in their native tongues instead of Mandarin. Every activity in the detainees’ daily routine was pre-ordained and their behaviour was constantly monitored and evaluated....
Every former detainee Amnesty International interviewed suffered torture or other ill-treatment.
This included the cumulative psychological effect of their daily dehumanization, as well as physical torture in the form of beatings, electric shocks, solitary confinement, deprivation of food, water and sleep, exposure to extreme cold, and the abusive use of restraints, including torture tools like tiger chairs. Some reported being restrained in a tiger chair for 24 hours or more...
The Chinese government has gone to extraordinary lengths to cover up its violations of international human rights law in Xinjiang. Authorities threaten, detain and mistreat anyone who speaks out...//
Read full article:
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/06/china-draconian-repression-of-muslims-in-xinjiang-amounts-to-crimes-against-humanity/
Source: Amnesty International #Jun10
Image by Molly Crabapple
#Uyghurs #ConcentrationCamp #CCP #AgainstHumanity #Torture #Rape #MassSurveillance
Amnesty International
China: Draconian repression of Muslims in Xinjiang amounts to crimes against humanity
Hundreds of thousands of Muslim minority men and women subjected to mass internment and torture Millions of Muslims subjected to systematized mass surveillance Muslim ethnic groups forced to abandon their religious traditions, cultural practices and local…
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'Some are just #psychopaths': Chinese detective in exile reveals extent of torture against #Uyghurs
//The ex-detective turned #whistleblower asked to be identified only as Jiang, to protect his family members who remain in China.
In a three-hour interview with CNN, conducted in Europe where he is now in exile, Jiang revealed rare details on what he described as a systematic campaign of torture against ethnic Uyghurs in the region's detention camp system, claims China has denied for years.
"Kick them, beat them (until they're) bruised and swollen," Jiang said, recalling how he and his colleagues used to interrogate detainees in police detention centers. "Until they kneel on the floor crying."
The methods included shackling people to a metal or wooden "tiger chair" -- chairs designed to immobilize suspects -- hanging people from the ceiling, sexual violence, electrocutions, and waterboarding. Inmates were often forced to stay awake for days, and denied food and water, he said.
"Everyone uses different methods. Some even use a wrecking bar, or iron chains with locks," Jiang said. "Police would step on the suspect's face and tell him to confess."
The suspects were accused of terror offenses, said Jiang, but he believes that "none" of the hundreds of prisoners he was involved in arresting had committed a crime. "They are ordinary people," he said.//
//...During the routine overnight operations, Jiang said they would be given lists of names of people to round up, as part of orders to meet official quotas on the numbers of Uyghurs to detain.
"It's all planned, and it has a system," Jiang said. "Everyone needs to hit a target."
If anyone resisted arrest, the police officers would "hold the gun against his head and say do not move. If you move, you will be killed."
He said teams of police officers would also search people's houses and download the data from their computers and phones.
Another tactic was to use the area's neighborhood committee to call the local population together for a meeting with the village chief, before detaining them en masse.
Describing the time as a "combat period," Jiang said officials treated Xinjiang like a war zone, and police officers were told that Uyghurs were enemies of the state.
He said it was common knowledge among police officers that 900,000 Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities were detained in the region in a single year.
Jiang said if he had resisted the process, he would have been arrested, too.
Inside the police detention centers, the main goal was to extract a confession from detainees, with sexual torture being one of the tactics, Jiang said.
"If you want people to confess, you use the electric baton with two sharp tips on top," Jiang said. "We would tie two electrical wires on the tips and set the wires on their genitals while the person is tied up."
He admitted he often had to play "bad cop" during interrogations but said he avoided the worst of the violence, unlike some of his colleagues.
"Some people see this as a job, some are just psychopaths," he said.
One "very common measure" of torture and dehumanization was for guards to order prisoners to rape and abuse the new male inmates, Jiang said.//
Read the full article:
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/04/china/xinjiang-detective-torture-intl-hnk-dst/index.html
Source: CNN #Oct4
#Torture #Rape #GangRape #HumanitarianCrisis #Chinazi #ConcentrationCamp #Xinjiang
#Astrocity
'Some are just #psychopaths': Chinese detective in exile reveals extent of torture against #Uyghurs
//The ex-detective turned #whistleblower asked to be identified only as Jiang, to protect his family members who remain in China.
In a three-hour interview with CNN, conducted in Europe where he is now in exile, Jiang revealed rare details on what he described as a systematic campaign of torture against ethnic Uyghurs in the region's detention camp system, claims China has denied for years.
"Kick them, beat them (until they're) bruised and swollen," Jiang said, recalling how he and his colleagues used to interrogate detainees in police detention centers. "Until they kneel on the floor crying."
The methods included shackling people to a metal or wooden "tiger chair" -- chairs designed to immobilize suspects -- hanging people from the ceiling, sexual violence, electrocutions, and waterboarding. Inmates were often forced to stay awake for days, and denied food and water, he said.
"Everyone uses different methods. Some even use a wrecking bar, or iron chains with locks," Jiang said. "Police would step on the suspect's face and tell him to confess."
The suspects were accused of terror offenses, said Jiang, but he believes that "none" of the hundreds of prisoners he was involved in arresting had committed a crime. "They are ordinary people," he said.//
//...During the routine overnight operations, Jiang said they would be given lists of names of people to round up, as part of orders to meet official quotas on the numbers of Uyghurs to detain.
"It's all planned, and it has a system," Jiang said. "Everyone needs to hit a target."
If anyone resisted arrest, the police officers would "hold the gun against his head and say do not move. If you move, you will be killed."
He said teams of police officers would also search people's houses and download the data from their computers and phones.
Another tactic was to use the area's neighborhood committee to call the local population together for a meeting with the village chief, before detaining them en masse.
Describing the time as a "combat period," Jiang said officials treated Xinjiang like a war zone, and police officers were told that Uyghurs were enemies of the state.
He said it was common knowledge among police officers that 900,000 Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities were detained in the region in a single year.
Jiang said if he had resisted the process, he would have been arrested, too.
Inside the police detention centers, the main goal was to extract a confession from detainees, with sexual torture being one of the tactics, Jiang said.
"If you want people to confess, you use the electric baton with two sharp tips on top," Jiang said. "We would tie two electrical wires on the tips and set the wires on their genitals while the person is tied up."
He admitted he often had to play "bad cop" during interrogations but said he avoided the worst of the violence, unlike some of his colleagues.
"Some people see this as a job, some are just psychopaths," he said.
One "very common measure" of torture and dehumanization was for guards to order prisoners to rape and abuse the new male inmates, Jiang said.//
Read the full article:
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/04/china/xinjiang-detective-torture-intl-hnk-dst/index.html
Source: CNN #Oct4
#Torture #Rape #GangRape #HumanitarianCrisis #Chinazi #ConcentrationCamp #Xinjiang
#Astrocity
CNN
Chinese detective in exile reveals torture inflicted on Uyghurs | CNN
A Chinese policeman turned whistleblower has revealed rare details on what he described as a systematic campaign of torture against ethnic Uyghurs in the Xinjiang region’s detention camps – claims China has denied for years.