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LAO MUST IMMEDIATELY RELEASE CHINESE LAWYER LU SIWEI AND PREVENT HIS IMMINENT
DEPORTATION: UN EXPERTS

11 August 2023


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GENEVA (11 August 2023) – UN experts* today called on Lao People’s Democratic
Republic to end the arbitrary detention of lawyer and human rights defender Lu
Siwei and permit him to continue his journey to reunite with his family.

“The surveillance, persecution and detention of Mr. Lu Siwei must end
immediately,” the experts said.

Lu Siwei is a well-known Chinese human rights defender and lawyer. On 28 July
2023, he was arrested in Lao by police, while preparing to board a train for
Thailand. He had recently fled China and intended to fly from Thailand to the
United States of America to reunite with his family.

To date, Lu Siwei remains in an unknown place of detention, without access to
his lawyers, his family or any other person of his choice.

“We fear Mr. Lu Siwei is at risk of imminent deportation to China, where there
are substantial grounds to believe that he would be in danger of being subjected
to irreparable harm upon return, on account of torture or cruel, inhuman or
degrading treatment or punishment. He is also at risk of other serious human
rights violations, including arbitrary detention or enforced disappearance,” the
UN experts said.

Under international human rights law, the principle of non-refoulement
guarantees that no one should be returned to a country where they would be in
danger of being subjected to torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or
punishment, enforced disappearance and other irreparable harm.

“Should the deportation take place, it would contradict the core principle of
non-refoulment as enshrined, among others, in Article 3 of the Convention
Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
(CAT), to which the Lao People’s Democratic Republic is party,” the experts
said.

“It is outrageous that human rights defenders working peacefully to promote,
defend or protect the rights of others, are being persecuted even while
fleeing,” the experts said.

“Based on humanitarian grounds and in line with Lao’s international human rights
obligations, we call on authorities to take all necessary measures to prevent
any irreparable harm to the life and personal integrity of Mr. Lu Siwei,” the
experts said.

They urged the Government of Lao People’s Democratic Republic to refrain from
returning him to the People’s Republic of China, ensure his release and allow
him to reunite with his family in the United States of America.

The experts are in contact with the Lao People’s Democratic Republic authorities
on the issue.

*The experts: Ms. Mary Lawlor,Special Rapporteur on the situation of human
rights defenders, Aua Baldé (Chair-Rapporteur), Gabriella Citroni (Vice-Chair),
Angkhana Neelapaijit, Grażyna Baranowska, Ana Lorena Delgadillo Pérez, Working
Group on enforced or involuntary disappearances, and Ms. Margaret Satterthwaite,
Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, and Ms. Alice Jill
Edwards, Special Rapporteur on Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading
Treatment or Punishment.

The Experts are part of what is known as the Special Procedures of the Human
Rights Council. Special Procedures, the largest body of independent experts in
the UN Human Rights system, is the general name of the Council’s independent
fact-finding and monitoring mechanisms that address either specific country
situations or thematic issues in all parts of the world. Special Procedures
experts work on a voluntary basis; they are not UN staff and do not receive a
salary for their work. They are independent of any government or organisation
and serve in their individual capacity.

UN Human Rights, Country Page - Lao PDR

For further information and media requests, please contact: Sophie Helle (+41 22
917 56 69 or Sophie.helle@un.org.)

For media enquiries regarding other UN independent experts, please contact Maya
Derouaz (maya.derouaz@un.org) or Dharisha Indraguptha
(dharisha.indraguptha@un.org).

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