CHINA-XINJIANG: SECURITY

Huang Yunmin, a 58-year old former judge in the quasi-military Xinjiang Production and Construction Corp (XPCC) ) Brigade (bingtuan)'s Third Brigade People's Court in Kashgar prefecture, who was initially briefly held on administrative detention in March in the bingtuan city of Tumxuk for helping local workers protest at their treatment by the authorities, was tried on September 19, 2017, on suspicion of "incitement to racial hatred." His defense attorney Ran Tong told Radio Free Asia (RFA) that the trial had closed after a day of hearings with no immediate verdict. Sentence is typically passed within six weeks of a trial. Ren Tong also said that Huang Yunmin "was just sharing information [about legal cases]; he wasn't disseminating it. This was a case of mutual study and learning between a group of friends." He also said the presiding judges had "rushed" through the proceedings without taking time to listen to or consider the arguments made by the defense.





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