London, 6 January 2016
An upsurge in cases of possible enforced disappearances in China in the context of an ongoing crackdown on dissent is deeply worrying, PEN International, the global writers’ organisation said today. Since November 2015, five Chinese writers, publishers and booksellers have disappeared in China and Thailand and PEN believes that it is highly likely that they are detained by the Chinese authorities in conditions amounting to enforced disappearance. Continue reading
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CHINA: Publisher Yao Wentian (aka Yiu Mantin) sentenced to 10 years in prison.
RAPID ACTION NETWORK
12 May 2014
Update #1 to RAN 02/14
CHINA: Publisher Yao Wentian (aka Yiu Mantin) sentenced to 10 years in prison.
PEN International is shocked by the heavy sentencing of Hong-based publisher Yao Wentian on 7 May 2014. Yao, who has been held in Shenzhen since 27 October 2013, was convicted by the Shenzhen Intermediate People’s Court on the charge of ‘smuggling prohibited items’ and sentenced to a 10-year jail term. At the time of his arrest he was preparing to publish a book by US-based 
dissident writer Yu Jie, entitled Chinese Godfather Xi Jinping. PEN believes the trial and conviction to bepolitically motivated. Yao suffers from asthma and a heart complaint and there are serious concerns for his health.
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