China: Further information: Life sentence for 18-year-old, unfair trial

Index Number: ASA 17/017/2010
Date Published: 20 April 2010
Categories: China

18-year-old Noor-Ul-Islam Sherbaz was sentenced to life imprisonment on 13 April 2010, following demonstrations and subsequent violence in western China in July 2009. His trial was unfair and his confession may have been extracted under torture.