Kazakstan: Further information on Forcible return/torture/death penalty

Index Number: EUR 57/002/2006
Date Published: 26 June 2006
Categories: Europe And Central Asia, Kazakstan

Yusuf Kadir Tohti and Abdukadir Sidik, who are originally from China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR), are being held in incommunicado detention in China after being forcibly returned from Kazakstan on 10 May. They are at risk of serious human rights violations, including torture or other ill-treatment, and possibly the death penalty if their "crimes" are deemed to be "serious".