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Human rights organizations such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International regularly express concern over the deteriorating human rights situation in East Turkistan. However, due to the Chinese authorities' tight controls on information, accurate and timely analysis of developments in East Turkistan is extremely difficult.
Human rights activists agree that without critical support from Uyghur-run human rights organizations, very little information from within East Turkistan will emerge.
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the Uyghur people in East Turkistan.
Thousands of Uyghurs are held in prisons and labor camps having expressed political views different to those of the Chinese state. Anyone in East Turkistan – and in mainland China – can be sent to a labor camp for up to four years without ever seeing a lawyer or a courtroom. When the Chinese authorities do hold a trial in political cases, a legal defense is rarely permitted, and friends and family of the accused are generally barred from court. Extremely vague definitions in Chinese law of what does and does not constitute a crime creates a widespread sense of fear and uncertainty amongst many Uyghurs engaged in intellectual, artistic and political activities.
Tsugitaka Sato, a University of Tokyo (Todai) professor emeritus, is determined to see one of his students freed from an 11-year term in a Chinese prison for inciting unrest.
The wife of a minority Muslim Uyghur writer, jailed by a Chinese court in 1999 for "stealing state secrets," says authorities have never officially told her of her husband's fate or whereabouts in more than seven years.
In steps apparently aimed at improving the diplomatic climate before a visit by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, China released its most prominent Muslim political prisoner on Thursday, and the Bush administration said it would not seek to censure China at the United Nations Human Rights Commission's annual meeting in Geneva.
Detained Canadian Huseyin Celil has been granted another meeting with his family in his remote northwest China prison.
Tsugitaka Sato, a University of Tokyo (Todai) professor emeritus, is determined to see one of his students freed from an 11-year term in a Chinese prison for inciting unrest.
The wife of a minority Muslim Uyghur writer, jailed by a Chinese court in 1999 for "stealing state secrets," says authorities have never officially told her of her husband's fate or whereabouts in more than seven years.