Subject: [CivilSoc] Uyghur Human Rights Event, Washington, DC, Feb. 6
From: Center for Civil Society International (ccsi@u.washington.edu)
Date: Sat Feb 03 2001 - 14:24:47 EST
Uyghur Human Rights Coalition Event at American University (DC):
STICKING WIRES COVERED WITH HORSE HAIR INTO MALE POLITICAL PRISONERS'
GENITALS,
PULLING OUT PRISONERS' FINGERNAILS,
RELEASING MAD DOGS TO VICIOUSLY BITE PRISONERS,
LOCKING PRISONERS IN LOW-DEGREE FREEZERS,
INFLICTING ELECTRIC SHOCKS TO PRISONERS' BODIES,
GANG RAPING WOMEN PRISONERS....
Methods of Torture Used by the Chinese Government Against Ethnic
Uyghur Political Dissidents in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
of China
Come and hear several Uyghurs' accounts of the Chinese government's
horrific human rights violations against the indigenous Uyghur
people, which include arbitrary executions, particularly cruel
methods of torture, political repression, religious persecution, and
cultural genocide.
Find out what you can do to help end the Uyghurs' suffering.
WHEN: Tuesday, February 6, 7:00 PM-8:30 PM
WHERE: American University (DC)
Beeghly Chemistry Building, Room 1
4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW
(closest to the Tenleytown-AU Metro Station)
SPONSORED BY: Uyghur Human Rights Coalition (http://www.uyghurs.org)
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT: Toni Braun, President of UHRC-American
University Chapter and UHRC Executive Board Member, (202)491-4522,
tbraun@uyghurs.org
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