Literary and Human Rights Group Maintains Uyghur Writer’s Innocence
PEN American Center is deeply troubled by reports that jailed Uyghur scholar and 2014 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award winner Ilham Tohti has been sentenced to a “heavy” jail term in a secret trial in China. Continue reading
PEN Alarmed by Reports of Secret Trial and Conviction in Tohti Case已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, PEN International News, Uighur
BY MEGHA RAJAGOPALAN AND BEN BLANCHARD
BEIJING Mon Jun 16, 2014 11:30am EDT
The trial of three people sentenced to death for their roles in an October attack on the edge of Beijing’s Tiananmen Square is seen in this still image taken from video in Urumqi city, June 16, 2014. Continue reading
China executes 13 people for “terrorist” attacks in Xinjiang已关闭评论
Tagged Tiananmen Square, Uighur, Xinjiang
Lawyer representing academic cites unconfirmed reports of ‘heavy’ sentencing after arrest and charges related to separatism
Tania Branigan in Beijing
theguardian.com, Monday 16 June 2014 08.34 EDT
