Urgent Action update: Human rights defender sentenced to 12 years

Huang Qi, founder and director of Sichuan-based human rights website “64 Tianwang”, was sentenced on 29 July to 12 years imprisonment following a secret trial in January 2019. The severity of the sentence is believed to be intended as a warning to other activists to stop work documenting human rights violations. Huang Qi continues to suffer from serious health concerns and without access to a lawyer of his choice or his family, he is at real risk of torture or other ill-treatment.

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PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 13 SEPTEMBER 2019

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President of the People’s Republic of China, Xi Jinping

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Xichangan’jie

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People’s Republic of China

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Email: english@mail.gov.cn

Salutation: Dear President Xi

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HIS EXCELLENCY MR LIU XIAOMING Embassy of the People's Republic of China 49-51 Portland Place W1B 1JL 020 7299 4049

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