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Islamic Human Rights Commission
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1 October 2007
UK Event: Rebiya Kadeer, Uighur activist to speak in UK tour
Brutal treatment and two years in solitary confinement has not stopped Rebiya Kadeer from continuing to stand up for the human rights of the Uighur people. Now her children back in China have been put in prison. Please join her on a demo and hear her talk.
Rebiya's philanthropic work led her into conflict with the Chinese authorities and she was imprisoned for nearly six years, two of them in solitary confinement, until international pressure led her to be released and she was allowed to start a new life in the United States.
Rebiya continues to campaign on behalf of the Uighur people, but her children who remain in China pay a heavy price for her freedom of speech. On the day that Rebiya was elected President of the World Uighur Congress earlier this year, her son, who was being held in a detention centre, was severely beaten. Now two of her sons have been given long prison sentences.
Rebiya will come to the UK in October this year (2007) to talk to members of the public, politicians and the media about the plight of the Uighur people. Amnesty International has asked her to address public meetings in London, Cardiff and Edinburgh and she will also meet with Uighurs living here, some of whom have also suffered human rights abuses in their homeland.
Rebiya Kadeer's Itinerary for her UK trip in October 2007:
Monday 1st 4.30pm - 6pm: Demonstration opposite Chinese embassy in London to mark anniversary of Communist rule in China
Monday 1st 7pm: Rebiya gives talk in London
Tuesday 2nd 5.30pm: Rebiya gives talk in Cardiff
Wednesday 3rd: private meeting at House of Lords in London.
Thursday 4th 7pm: Rebiya gives talk in Edinburgh
This series of events is also supported by the Islamic Human Rights Commission.
For more details please go to the event website on http://www.guljavigil.org/thousandmothers.htm (http://www.guljavigil.org/thousandmothers.htm)
Or please contact the office on the numbers/email below:
Islamic Human Rights Commission
PO Box 598
Wembley
HA9 7XH
United Kingdom
Telephone (+44) 20 8904 4222
Fax (+44) 20 8904 5183
Email: info@ihrc.org
Web: www.ihrc.org
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Holy Qur’an: Chapter 4, Verse 75
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Islamic Human Rights Commission
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1 October 2007
UK Event: Rebiya Kadeer, Uighur activist to speak in UK tour
Brutal treatment and two years in solitary confinement has not stopped Rebiya Kadeer from continuing to stand up for the human rights of the Uighur people. Now her children back in China have been put in prison. Please join her on a demo and hear her talk.
Rebiya's philanthropic work led her into conflict with the Chinese authorities and she was imprisoned for nearly six years, two of them in solitary confinement, until international pressure led her to be released and she was allowed to start a new life in the United States.
Rebiya continues to campaign on behalf of the Uighur people, but her children who remain in China pay a heavy price for her freedom of speech. On the day that Rebiya was elected President of the World Uighur Congress earlier this year, her son, who was being held in a detention centre, was severely beaten. Now two of her sons have been given long prison sentences.
Rebiya will come to the UK in October this year (2007) to talk to members of the public, politicians and the media about the plight of the Uighur people. Amnesty International has asked her to address public meetings in London, Cardiff and Edinburgh and she will also meet with Uighurs living here, some of whom have also suffered human rights abuses in their homeland.
Rebiya Kadeer's Itinerary for her UK trip in October 2007:
Monday 1st 4.30pm - 6pm: Demonstration opposite Chinese embassy in London to mark anniversary of Communist rule in China
Monday 1st 7pm: Rebiya gives talk in London
Tuesday 2nd 5.30pm: Rebiya gives talk in Cardiff
Wednesday 3rd: private meeting at House of Lords in London.
Thursday 4th 7pm: Rebiya gives talk in Edinburgh
This series of events is also supported by the Islamic Human Rights Commission.
For more details please go to the event website on http://www.guljavigil.org/thousandmothers.htm (http://www.guljavigil.org/thousandmothers.htm)
Or please contact the office on the numbers/email below:
Islamic Human Rights Commission
PO Box 598
Wembley
HA9 7XH
United Kingdom
Telephone (+44) 20 8904 4222
Fax (+44) 20 8904 5183
Email: info@ihrc.org
Web: www.ihrc.org
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IHRC is an NGO in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations
Please help IHRC by visiting http://www.ihrc.org.uk/catalog (http://www.ihrc.org.uk/catalog) and making a donation or buying an item from our on-line store.
If you want to subscribe to the IHRC list please send an email to subscribe@ihrc.org
If you want to unsubscribe from the IHRC list please send an email from your subscribed email address to unsubscribe@ihrc.org
If you are reusing this alert, please cite the source.
“And what reason have you that you should not fight in the way of Allah and of the weak among the men and the women and the children, (of) those who say: Our Lord! Cause us to go forth from this town, whose people are oppressors, and give us from Thee a guardian and give us from Thee a helper.”
Holy Qur’an: Chapter 4, Verse 75
Join the Struggle for Justice. Join IHRC.
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