New HRW Report Chronicles Crimes Against Humanity In Xinjiang
Posted by Joseph Brouwer | Apr 20, 2021
A joint report by Human Right’s Watch and Stanford Law School’s Mills Legal Clinic, titled “
Chinese authorities have often detained Turkic Muslims on the basis of overbroad crimes such as “separatism.” Ilham Tohti, a prominent Uyghur academic who ran a website providing news and information about Turkic Muslims, was prosecuted for separatism and sentenced to life in prison in 2014. Related charges include “terrorism” and “religious extremism,” which are almost always leveled against ethnic minorities such as Turkic Muslims. Chinese authorities have made many of these arrests and detentions without any evidentiary basis and frequently fail to respect the due process rights of detainees. Detainees and their relatives interviewed by Human Rights Watch all reported that at no point did the authorities ever present them with a warrant, with evidence of a crime, or wi
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Juliet M. Brodie has been named the Peter E. Haas Faculty Director of the Haas Center for Public Service by Provost Persis Drell.
Brodie, who directs the Stanford Community Law Clinic (CLC), has been a member of the Stanford faculty since 2006. She will succeed Deborah Stipek, who has served as the Haas Center faculty director since September 2016. Tom Schnaubelt, who joined the center as executive director in April 2009, will continue in that capacity. Brodie will start her five-year term in the fall, while continuing to lead the CLC.
Throughout her career as a clinical teacher, Brodie has led law school clinics embedded in low-income communities neighboring the universities. Before coming to Stanford, she directed the Neighborhood Law Project as an associate clinical professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School. An award-winning teacher, she is dedicated to creating an environment where novice lawyers can gain crucial practical skills representing real client
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