People's Republic of China Telegrams: President of the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Regional High Pe= ople's Court, Wulumuqi, Xinjiang Weiwuer Zizhiqu, China Salutation:Dear President COPIES TO: Secretary of the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Regional Party Committee WANG Lequan Shuji Xinjiang Weiwuer Zizhiqu Zhonggong Weiyuanhui Wulumuqishi Xinjiang Weiwuer Zizhiqu People's Republic of China Telegram: Secretary of the Regional Party Committee, Wulumuqi, Xinjiang= Weiwuer Zizhiqu, China Salutation:Dear Secretary and to diplomatic representatives of the People?s Republic of China acc= redited to your country. PLEASE SEND APPEALS IMMEDIATELY. Check with the International Secretari= at, or your section office, if sending appeals after 14 October 1999. = Return-Path: Received: from fox.amnesty.org ([194.131.159.110]) by mailin03.btx.dtag.de with smtp id <11GOLH-001sd6C>; Mon, 16 Aug 1999 17:06:50 +0200 Received: by fox.amnesty.org(Lotus SMTP MTA v4.6.5 (863.2 5-20-1999)) id 802567CF.0052D56B ; Mon, 16 Aug 1999 16:04:45 +0100 X-Lotus-FromDomain: INTSEC From: mmurphy@amnesty.org To: $Kazak_contacts@amnesty.org Message-ID: <802567CF.0052D501.00@fox.amnesty.org> Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 16:04:51 +0100 Subject: China/Kazak UA Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable PUBLIC AI Index: ASA 17/28/99 12 Au= gust 1999 Further information on EXTRA 77/98 (EUR 57/12/98, 15 October 1998) and follow-ups (EUR 57/02/99, 15 February 1999; EUR 57/04/99, 9 June 1999; = EUR 75/05/99, 3 August 1999) - Torture/Health concern/Unfair trial/Fear of = execution PEOPLE?S REPUBLIC OF CHINA (PRC)/KAZAKSTAN Zulikar Memet (aka Zulfikar Memet) Hemit Memet (aka Khamit Memet), 28 Seidakhmet Memet (aka Saydakhmet Memet) Kasim Mapir (aka Kasim Mahpir) Ilyas Zordun According to new information received by Amnesty International, Zulikar= Memet was sentenced to death after he told the court that his ?confession? ha= d been extracted under torture and showed them the signs of the torture he had= suffered. Under Chinese law, such allegations of torture should be the object of = an investigation and the trial of the defendant should normally be suspend= ed pending the result of the investigation. In sentencing Zulikar Memet to= death, the court, in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) of the PRC, = appears to have ignored the allegations as well as the requirements of Chinese = law. The information received indicates that Zulikar Memet was sentenced to = death on 25 July 1999 - not 25 June as previously reported - by the Ili Prefectu= re Intermediate People?s Court. His brother Hemit Memet and eight other Ui= ghurs whose identity is not known were also sentenced to death, presumably on= or around the same date. It is not known whether they have appealed agains= t the verdict. Another of Zulikar?s brothers, Seidakhmet Memet, detained sinc= e February 1999, was sentenced to six years? imprisonment. He was reporte= dly accused of having helped ?separatists? (nationalists) to hide. The charge on which Zulikar Memet was sentenced to death is not known. = Arrested on 4 April 1998, he was reportedly originally accused, like his brother= Seidakhmet, of ?helping separatists? to hide or escape, a charge which = would normally be punished by a relatively light sentence. However, after his= brother Hemit Memet was forcibly returned to China by Kazakstan in February 199= 9, Zulikar?s case was reopened, and he was reportedly tortured and forced = to confess to new accusations. According to unofficial sources, during his= trial Zulikar denied all the accusations against him and stated in court that= he had been severely tortured to force him to confess to the accusations and s= ign a ?confession?. He reportedly showed the court the signs of torture, incl= uding cut-off or missing finger nails which had been pulled out during the to= rture sessions. Zulikar Memet and Seidakhmet Memet are reported to be in very poor heal= th due to torture and detention conditions. Both are detained in Yengi Hayat jail= in Gulja (Yining) city, Ili Prefecture, in the XUAR. Hemit Memet is reported to= be held in harsh conditions, incommunicado and in solitary confinement, in the = Ili prefectural prison. He too was reportedly tortured. The fate of Kasim Mahpir and Ilyas Zordun is still unknown. It is feare= d that they may be among the 10 people sentenced to death last month. Together= with Hemit Memet, they were detained by the Kazakstan authorities while cros= sing the border from China in 1998. After seeking political asylum in Kazakstan,= the three men were forcibly returned to China by the Kazak authorities in F= ebruary 1999. FURTHER RECOMMENDED ACTION: Please send telegrams/telexes/faxes/express= / airmail letters in English or in your own language: - urging the authorities to stop the execution of Zulikar Memet, Hemit = Memet and others sentenced to death in Ili Prefecture (XUAR) in July 1999; - expressing concern at reports that Zulikar Memet and other defendants= were tortured to extract confessions and that the Ili Intermediate People?s = Court ignored Zulikar Memet?s complaint of torture, in violation of Chinese l= aw; - urging the authorities to grant Zulikar Memet and other defendants a = new, fair and open trial, carried out according to international standards for fa= ir trial, failing which they should be released; - urging the authorities to launch an impartial investigation into the allegations of torture, to make the findings of the investigation publi= c and to bring the perpetrators to justice; - expressing concern that many political prisoners in the XUAR have be= en convicted after summary proceedings, and that there is the growing evid= ence that such convictions are largely based on confessions extracted under tortu= re. APPEALS TO: Premier of the People?s Republic of China ZHU Rongji Zongli Guowuyuan 9 Xihuangchenggenbeijie Beijingshi 100032 People?s Republic of China Telexes: 210070 FMPRC CN or 22478 MFERT CN Telegram: Premier Zhu Rongji, Beijing, China Salutation: Your Excellency Procurator-General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate of the = People's Republic of China HAN Zhubin Jianchazhang Zuigao Renmin Jianchayuan 147 Beiheyan Dajie Donganmen, Dongchengqu Beijingshi 100726 People's Republic of China Telexes: 210070 FMPRC CN or 22478 MFERT CN (Please forward to the Procurator-General) Telegram: Procurator-General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate,= Beijing, China Salutation: Dear Procurator-General President of the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Regional High People's Cour= t Abdurehim Kadeer Yuanzhang Xinjiang Weiwuer Zizhiqu Gaoji Renmin Fayuan Wulumuqishi, Xinjiang Weiwuer Zizhiqu People's Republic of China Telegram: President of the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Regional High= People's Court, Wulumuqi, Xinjiang Weiwuer Zizhiqu, China Salutation: Dear President COPIES TO: Secretary of the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Regional Party Committee WANG Lequan Shuji Xinjiang Weiwuer Zizhiqu Zhonggong Weiyuanhui Wulumuqishi Xinjiang Weiwuer Zizhiqu People's Republic of China Telegram: Secretary of the Regional Party Committee, Wulumuqi, Xinjian= g Weiwuer Zizhiqu, China Salutation: Dear Secretary and to diplomatic representatives of the People?s Republic of China a= ccredited to your country. PLEASE SEND APPEALS IMMEDIATELY. Check with the International Secret= ariat, or your section office, if sending appeals after 9 September 1999. = Return-Path: Received: from fox.amnesty.org ([194.131.159.110]) by mailin04.btx.dtag.de with smtp id <11BgIN-001SkuC>; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 17:16:03 +0200 Received: by fox.amnesty.org(Lotus SMTP MTA v4.6.5 (863.2 5-20-1999)) id 802567C2.0053B471 ; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 16:14:16 +0100 X-Lotus-FromDomain: INTSEC From: mmurphy@amnesty.org To: $Kazak_contacts@amnesty.org Message-ID: <802567C2.0053B405.00@fox.amnesty.org> Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 16:13:49 +0100 Subject: China/Kazakstan update Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable PUBLIC AI Index: EUR 57/05/99 3 August 1999 Further information on EXTRA 77/98 (EUR 57/12/98, 15 October 1998) and follow-ups (EUR 57/02/99, 15 February 1999; EUR 57/04/99, 9 June 1999) - Fear of T= orture / Fear of Execution CHINA/KAZAKSTAN Hemit Memet (aka Khamit Memet), 28 Kasim Mahpir Ilyas Zordun Zulikar Memet Saydakhmet Memet Zulikar Memet and his brother Hemit Memet have reportedly been sentence= d to death. Zulikar Memet was reportedly one of 10 Uighurs sentenced to death on 25= June 1999 by a court in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) of the People?s Republi= c of China. The names of the other nine are unknown. It is not known when Hemit Memet was sen= tenced. Saydakhmet Memet, another brother of Zulikar Memet, has reportedly been= sentenced to six years in prison. The fate of Kasim Mahpir and Ilyas Zordun is still unknown. They and He= mit Memet were detained by Kazakstan authorities while attempting to cross the border from Chin= a to seek political asylum in Kazakstan. All three were forcibly returned to China. Zulikar Memet was detained in 1998, and Saydakhmet Memet in February 19= 99, in the XUAR. Both were accused of ?assisting separatists / terrorists?. BACKGROUND INFORMATION Since 1996 the Chinese authorities have carried out a harsh crackdown o= n suspected Uighur ?separatists? and ?religious extremists? throughout XUAR. This has led = to gross violations of human rights, including torture and executions of political prisoners (see Am= nesty International report Gross Violations of Human Rights in the XUAR, ASA 17/18/99, 21 April 19= 99). This intensified last year after anti-Chinese protests by Uighurs in Gulja (Yining), near the= border with Kazakstan. The ?ethnic separatists?, as the Chinese authorities refer to them, are see= king independence from China. FURTHER RECOMMENDED ACTION: Please send telegrams/telexes/faxes/express= / airmail letters in English, Chinese or your own language: - urging that the death sentences passed on Zulikar Memet and Hemit Mem= et be immediately commuted; - urging that the arbitrary and massive use of the death penalty in Chi= na be stopped, and expressing grave concern at the growing number of executions and the us= e of the death penalty as a tool of political repression in the XUAR; - expressing concern that many of those executed in the XUAR have been= sentenced to death after summary proceedings, in violation of international fair trial sta= ndards; - expressing opposition to the death penalty in all cases as the ultima= te form of cruel and inhuman punishment and as a violation of the right to life as guaranteed in the= Universal Declaration of Human Rights. APPEALS TO: President of the People?s Republic of China JIANG Zemin Guojia Zhuxi Beijingshi People?s Republic of China Telegram: President Jiang Zemin, Beijing, China Salutation: Your Excellency President of the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Regional High People's Cour= t Abdurehim Kadeer Yuanzhang Xinjiang Weiwuer Zizhiqu Gaoji Renmin Fayuan Wulumuqishi, Xinjiang Weiwuer Zizhiqu People's Republic of China Telegram: President of the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Regional High Peo= ple's Court, Wulumuqi, Xinjiang Weiwuer Zizhiqu, China Salutation: Dear President Director of the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Regional Department of Justi= ce Rozi Simayi Tingzhang Sifating Jiangkanglu Wulumuqishi 830002 Xinjiang Weiwuer Zizhiqu People's Republic of China Telegram: Director of the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Regional Departmen= t of Justice, Wulumuqi, Xinjiang Weiwuer Zizhiqu, China Salutation: Dear Director COPIES TO: Chairman of the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Regional People's Government= ABDULAHAT Abdurixit Zhuxi Xinjiang Weiwuer Zizhiqu Renmin Zhengfu 2 Zhongshanlu Wulumuqishi 830041 Xinjiang Weiwuer Zizhiqu People's Republic of China Telegram: Chairman of the Regional People's Government, Wulumuqi, Xinji= ang Weiwuer Zizhiqu, China Salutation: Dear Chairman and to diplomatic representatives of the People?s Republic of China acc= redited to your country. PLEASE SEND APPEALS IMMEDIATELY. Check with the International Secretari= at, or your section office, if sending appeals after 31 August 1999. =