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Reuters’ Ben Blanchard reports the release of ethnic Mongolian political prisoner Hada after eighteen years<\/strong><\/a> in prison and under house arrest.<\/p>\n

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“He’s not in good health,” the dissident’s uncle, Haschuluu, told Reuters, adding that Hada’s younger brother had told him of the release, which took place on Tuesday morning in the Inner Mongolian capital of Hohhot. He declined to comment further.<\/p>\n

Many Mongols in China go by just one name.<\/p>\n

Hada was tried behind closed doors in 1996 and jailed for 15 years for separatism, spying and supporting the Southern Mongolian Democratic Alliance, which sought greater rights for China’s ethnic Mongols. He says the charges were trumped up.<\/p>\n

[\u2026] While Hada’s release was a positive sign, he was likely to remain closely watched, as commonly happens with dissidents, said Patrick Poon, a China researcher at Amnesty International in Hong Kong. [Source<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Writing at the University of Nottingham’s China Policy Institute Blog in August, Jackie Sheehan highlighted Hada’s case as a warning<\/strong><\/a> following the release of rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng in Xinjiang<\/a>: <\/p>\n

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Gao\u2019s year of deprivation of rights could stretch into indefinite isolation, surveillance, and pressure to cooperate with the authorities. Inner Mongolian rights activist Hada, \u201creleased\u201d from prison at the end of a fifteen-year sentence in December 2010, is still in a \u201cblack jail\u201d in Hohhot, denied medical treatment for the severe depression and paranoia he has developed over 18 years of incarceration, but reportedly supplied with plenty of alcohol. His family are continually threatened over their \u201cnon-cooperation\u201d and persistence in making Hada\u2019s condition known outside China, using trumped-up drugs charges against his son and ever-tighter restrictions on his wife\u2019s links with outside world. [Source<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reuters’ Ben Blanchard reports the release of ethnic Mongolian political prisoner Hada after eighteen years in prison and under house arrest. “He’s not in good health,” the dissident’s uncle, Haschuluu, told Reuters, adding that Hada’s younger brother had told him of the release, which took place on Tuesday morning in the Inner Mongolian capital of 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