HUMAN RIGHTS: NORWEGIANS ON REBIYA KADEER FAMILY

C O N F I D E N T I A L BEIJING 012526 SIPDIS SIPDIS DEPT FOR DRL, EAP/CM E.O. 12958: DECL: 06/15/2031 TAGS: PHUM PREL UN CH SUBJECT: HUMAN RIGHTS: NORWEGIANS ON REBIYA KADEER FAMILY DETENTION REF: BEIJING 11385 AND PREVIOUS Classified By: Classified by Acting Political Internal Unit Chief Susan Thornton. Reasons 1.4 (b/d). (C) Xinjiang public security officials on June 6 told members of a Norwegian delegation traveling in Xinjiang that Rebiya Kadeer's adult sons Alim and Ablikim were being held in the Tianshan Detention Center. In a meeting on the margins of the Norwegian Human Rights Dialogue, the Deputy Director General of the provincial PSB told the Norwegians that Alim had thrown a rock at police when he was being detained and police had had to use force against him, but the DDG made no mention of hospitalization, Norwegian Poloff Jo Inge Bekkvold told Poloff on June 15. The Xinjiang official told the Norwegians that Kadeer's daughter Rushangul was being held under house arrest. In response to a Norwegian question, the official stated that none of Rushangul's children are affected by the house arrest order. RANDT