... SMHRIC was also able to confirm that last month Ms. Xinna, wife of Hada, was transferred from the Inner Mongolia No.1 Detention Center to her bookstore warehouse where her son Uiles is kept under house arrest. Xinna was tried behind closed doors sometime in early April and sentenced to 3 years in jail with 5 years of reprieve on a charge of “engaging in illegal business” before she was discharged from detention. Xinna did not plead guilty and is preparing to appeal. Xinna was subjected to extralegal arrest and taken away by police from her bookstore a few days before Hada’s scheduled release date of December 10, 2010. No public explanation has been released regarding her arrest and detention. “Xinna is staying in her rented warehouse with her son Uiles in Hohhot since their house was confiscated and they have no home to speak of,” Haschuluu said when asked by SMHRIC whether Xinna is in her home  ...

           ... "That's how important these animals are to our culture," says Baocheng, as he smooths his leathery palms over a 200-year-old saddle. His collection of more than 400 Mongolian horse saddles has been a labor of love since he stopped riding. After more than 40 years of training and riding horses, the ethnic Mongolian says they're as much a part of him as the air he breathes. "As a kid, everyone rode horses to herd sheep, but now we only see motorcycles" the 68-year old says, as he lights a cigarette. He reveals a toothy smile that carves even deeper wrinkles into his weathered skin. "We learned to ride when we could walk." Baocheng, who like most Mongolians goes by one name, has witnessed many changes around the street where he runs an antiques shop. This was once a trading area for livestock in downtown Hohhot, capital of China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous region. Unfortunately the most significant  ...

           ...  Following three days of protests by Mongolians of Tulee Gachaa (gachaa is equivalent to village), Naiman Banner (Banner is equivalent to county) of eastern Southern (Inner) Mongolia, the Chinese authorities in Naiman Banner finally freed all twenty two detainees who were arrested while attempting to stop the bulldozer of a Chinese state-run forestry company from leveling and occupying the Gachaa’s land. However, the authorities have continued their repression by initiating investigations of individuals who gave interviews to foreign and domestic news agencies or otherwise spread word of the protests. At least one local Mongolian who lived outside the Gachaa was arrested by police on April 6, 2012 accused of “defaming the state”. Several others are being investigated for suspicion of communicating with foreign reporters. “The Deputy Governor of Tongliao Municipality surnamed Sun visited our Gachaa yesterday  ...

           ... On April 3, 2012, more than 40 Mongolian protesters marched toward the Banner capital of Daachintal and gathered in front of the Banner Government building to demand the authorities free the detainees and respect their legal rights. They chanted slogans and held up a sign reading “Stop illegal detention, Release the Detainees, and Return Our Land”. “We have been here all day demanding the Government release the detainees,” Chenfuulong, one of the organizers of the protest, told the Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center (SMRHIC) in a telephone interview, “but the Government continues to ignore our grievances.” According to Chenfuulong, the detainees were sprayed with an unknown substance in their mouths by the police after they were handcuffed and thrown into police vehicles yesterday. “My brother Chenfuudee was sprayed in his mouth first for insisting on defending the rights of our fellow Mongolians  ....