Morocco - Detained Uyghur Man Must Not Be Sent to China

press release
  • Computer designer Idris Hasan has been held at China's request for two months
  • China has well-documented record of persecution of Uyghurs at home and abroad
  • "I fear that if my husband is sent back to China, I will never see him again" - wife, Zaynura

The Moroccan authorities must not transfer Idris Hasan - an ethnic Uyghur man who was detained in Morocco more than two months ago - to China, where he would be at risk of torture, Amnesty International said ahead of his extradition hearing tomorrow (22 September).

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