China: Further Information on Fear of torture and other ill-treatment

Index Number: ASA 17/013/2009
Date Published: 31 March 2009
Categories: China

Human rights lawyer Wei Liangyue and his wife Du Yongjing have been released and returned home after 30 days of detention. Both were released on bail on 30 March 2009 pending further investigation. Wei Liangyue remains under suspicion of “gathering a crowd to disturb social order” and Du Yongjing is still under suspicion of “using a heretical organization to undermine implementation of the law”.