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Uyghur filmmaker Ikram Nurmehmet says he was tortured by authorities and forced to give false confessions in detention.
He appeared on trial in Xinjiang and is accused of “terrorism” and “separatism,” which he denies. I wrote an update @guardian theguardian.com/global-develop…
He appeared on trial in Xinjiang and is accused of “terrorism” and “separatism,” which he denies. I wrote an update @guardian theguardian.com/global-develop…
Nurmehmet has been denied his choice of legal counsel and is being represented by a state-appointed lawyer, according to supporters. The lawyer told family members to expect a sentence of more than 8 years in prison, and that the verdict may be announced “a week or years” later.
@wang_maya @hrw called the use of torture “routine” in cases with political charges. While Chinese law has an exclusionary clause stipulating that any confessions extracted under torture should be excluded, the rule “does not actually function in practice" hrw.org/report/2015/05…
Under Chinese law, the term “terrorism” has a broad definition that can cover anything from producing a politically sensitive film to meeting any overseas Uyghur or human rights activist (who are all considered terrorists by the Chinese state) @williamnee of @CHRDnet told me
More than 300 Uyghur intellectuals and cultural elites are currently held in some form of extralegal detention after having disappeared between 2016 and 2021, according to a database by @UyghurProject: uhrp.org/intellectuals/
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