China: Prevent executions for Uighur unrest

Index AI : ASA 17/061/2009
Date de publication : 2 novembre 2009
Catégorie(s) : Chine

Nine people (apparently, eight Uighurs and one Han Chinese) have been sentenced to death for involvement in unrest earlier this year in western China. They have exhausted all their appeals, and could be executed within days once their sentences are approved by the Supreme Court.