E/CN.4/2001/66 page 69 303. On 18 May 2000, the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal on behalf of Pastor Li Dexian, a protestant pastor in Huadu who for the previous seven months had been arrested and detained for 24 hours every two weeks (on Tuesday mornings). On 11 April 2000, he was reportedly arrested and detained for 15 days, during which time his legs were allegedly shackled with cuffs placed around his ankles; a second pair of cuffs connected with each other with a bar was allegedly placed above the first pair; finally, his wrists were allegedly shackled and then pulled down and attached to the bar connecting the leg cuffs. He is reported to have stayed in that position for five days. No toilet facilities were reportedly available. The cuffs on his hands were allegedly so tight that the blood circulation was cut off and his left hand is said to have started to turn black. He was again arrested on 9 May 2000 and was reportedly released after 24 hours. 304. On 22 June 2000, the Special Rapporteur sent a joint urgent appeal with the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions on behalf of Jelil Turdi (also known as Zhalil Turdi), an ethnic Uighur from Artush in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) who had lived in Kyrgyzstan over the past three years and was married to a Kyrgyz citizen. He was reportedly first detained by Kyrgyz police in early March 2000, reportedly for having an illegal residence permit. He was reportedly re-arrested a few weeks later by the Kyrgyz authorities, who had allegedly been told by the Chinese embassy in Kyrgyzstan that his Chinese identity documents were false. Chinese security officers had reportedly told the Kyrgyz authorities that Jelil Turdi was wanted in China for involvement in a nationalist opposition group. The Chinese officers reportedly took part in his interrogation, during which he is said to have been subjected to torture. Jelil Turdi was reportedly taken back to China at the end of April by Chinese security officers sent to Kyrgyzstan without having had the opportunity to challenge in court the decision to deport him. 305. On 7 July 2000, the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal on behalf of Rebiya Kadeer, a Uighur business woman, sentenced to eight years in prison for “providing secret information to foreigners” by the Urumqi City Intermediate People’s Court on 9 March 2000. Her health is believed to have deteriorated severely, partly as a result of ill-treatment in prison, and she is said to be in urgent need of medical attention. 306. On 12 July 2000, the Special Rapporteur sent a joint urgent appeal with the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions on behalf of Zhuo Xiaojun, who had reportedly been sentenced to death after being convicted of “intentional killing” by Fuzhou City Intermediate People’s Court. It is believed that his confession was extracted under torture. He was allegedly suspended from handcuffs attached to the bars of a door with his feet locked in 50 kg shackles, and was kicked, beaten and attacked with electric batons whenever he refused to confess to the crime. 307. By letter dated 21 November 2000, the Government responded to this urgent appeal. At the time of writing, the translation of this report was not available to the Special Rapporteur. 308. On 29 August 2000, the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal on behalf of Ngawang Choephel, a Tibetan musicologist serving an 18-year prison sentence, on behalf of whom the Special Rapporteur had intervened on 1 July 1999 (E/CN.4/2000/9, para. 228),