Urgent Action Update: 42 Months in Prison for Forcibly Returned Activist (China: UA 259.15)

According to a Chinese media report, Dong Guangping was sentenced to 42 months in prison almost one year after his trial in July 2017. No notification about the trial or sentencing has been communicated with his family and lawyer. Held incommunicado since being forcibly returned from Thailand in 2015, he remains at grave risk of torture.

1) TAKE ACTION
Write a letter, send an email, call, fax or tweet:

Ensure that Dong Guangping is either released or tried in line with international fair trial standards, and not for the peaceful exercise of his human rights;
Ensure that, while in detention, Dong Guangping is not subjected to torture or other ill-treatment and has regular, unrestricted access to his family, lawyers of his choice and medical care on request or as necessary;
Cease requesting other countries to return individuals to China in violation of international law.

Contact these two officials by 11 September, 2018:
Chief Procurator of Chongqing Municipal People’s Procuratorate
He Hengyang Jianchazhang
Chongqing Shi Renmin Jianchayuan
270 Jinlong Lu, Longxi
Yubei Qu, Chongqing Shi 400020
People’s Republic of China
Salutation: Dear Chief Procurator

Ambassador Cui Tiankai,
Embassy of the People’s Republic of China
3505 International Place NW,
Washington, DC 20008
Phone: 202 495 2266 | Fax: 202 495 2138
Email: [email protected]
(If you receive an error message, please try calling instead!)
Salutation: Dear Ambassador

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