Justice Abroad’s Michael Polak Represents Uyghur Businessmen Rozi and Mehmet Hemdul who are Arbitrarily Detained in Chinese Concentration Camps

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Justice Abroad’s Michael Polak Represents Uyghur Businessmen Rozi and Mehmet Hemdul who are Arbitrarily Detained in Chinese Concentration Camps

Justice Abroad’s Michael Polak has been instructed by the family of Uyghur businessmen Rozi Hemdul and Mehmet Hemdul who are arbitrarily detained in Chinese concentration camps or prison.

Under these instructions Michael will be advocating for the release of the two men who are both fathers to four children and whose families need them to be returned. Both men ran what was considered by many as the most successful real estate firm in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) before being detained by the Chinese authorities without having committed any offence. Their arrest and detention, which is unlawful under international law, follow the arbitrary detention of an estimated more than a million Turkic Muslims in the Region[1] and it is understood that the brothers have been targeted by the Chinese authorities because of their successful business which was involved in a number of major developments in China as well as the building of a hospital in Ankara, Turkey.  Radio Free Asia has reported on the brother’s situation here  

Justice Abroad’s Michael Polak will be leading on this case and will be pursuing all avenues to press for Rozi and Mehmet’s release including applications to the United Nations bodies, lobbying, and bringing their plight to the public’s attention through the international press and human rights organisations. Mr Polak states the following ‘my instruction in this case comes after building a strong relationship with the worldwide Uyghur community who are facing the most serious repression on a massive and disastrous scale. Rozi Hemdul and Mehmet Hemdul have done nothing wrong and we call on the Chinese authorities to release them to the families where they belong.’

Michael Polak recently met with Omer Hemdul, Rozi and Mehmet’s younger brother, and a video of their conversation about his brother’s plight is available here.

On social media we will be using the hashtag #FreeHemdulBrothers.

Justice Abroad can be found on Twitter here, Facebook here, and LinkedIn here.

Media requests for interviews with Michael Polak or members of the Hemdul family can be accommodated and should be made by contacting Justice Abroad by email at contact@JusticeAbroad.co.uk or phone on +44 (0)203 488 2316.

Notes to Editors

Justice Abroad, www.justiceabroad.co.uk  has been set up to help those trying to find their way through foreign justice systems with all the associated hurdles that presents, to represent those facing gross breaches of their human rights no matter where this takes place, and to advise and assist the victims of crimes as to how to achieve justice.

To help such individuals or families with these dilemmas and many more, three experts, Michael Polak, a barrister with an international practice focussed on the assistance of foreign nationals in trouble around the world, David Swindle , a former Detective Superintendent who has worked on hundreds of murders and complex high profile investigations in the UK and abroad during his 34 years in the police, and David Walters MVO, a former British Diplomat with over thirty years’ experience having served in over a dozen countries around the world, have pooled their extensive experience and contacts together to provide a comprehensive service. In providing this service the team consider all legal, political, and investigatory steps which might assist their clients attain justice.

[1] https://www.uyghurcongress.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Joint-Letter-to-UN-Secretary-General-Antonio-Guterres-regarding-Xinjiang-1.pdf