China: Death penalty / fear of imminent execution: Cheung Tze-keung

Index Number: ASA 17/035/1998
Date Published: 20 October 1998
Categories: Asia And The Pacific, China

Cheung Tze-keung, a Hong Kong gang leader, and 35 gang members, are currently being tried in China for offences punishable by death. Amnesty International is concerned that they will receive an unfair trial and thereafter face possible execution. According to one report the trial will be part of a crackdown on organized crime and the defendants will be made an example of.