China: Fear of torture ill-treatment/fear of unfair trial

Index Number: ASA 17/047/2007
Date Published: 4 October 2007
Categories: Asia And The Pacific, China

Ye Mingjun (m), aged 47, and Ye Guoqiang (m), aged 25, have been detained by Beijing police on suspicion of "inciting subversion". They are held incommunicado, putting them at high risk of torture or other ill-treatment. They are respectively son and brother of imprisoned housing rights activist Ye Guozhu, who has reportedly been subjected to beatings and other forms of torture.