A/HRC/4/33/Add.1 Page 63 Para 41. Country Date 22/08/06 Type JUA Mandate HRD; IJL; TOR; Allegations transmitted Government Response that the organs being transplanted were from legal sources; and there was no obligation to have transplant ethics committees approve all transplants in advance. Moreover, evidence exists, for example, that at least up until April 2006 price lists for organ transplants in China were published on the Internet. are sentenced to death are those criminals who have committed extremely serious crimes and who should be sentenced to death and executed immediately (i.e. without reprieve), not for being Falun Gong practitioners. For this reason, there are no statistical data for Falun Gong practitioners who have been executed. In order to deal with the problem of organ supply, each country typically uses two methods: one, to increase social awareness and mobilize the population to donate organs; and two, to facilitate live organ donation and transplant between relatives. China’s methods are not exceptions. Moreover, it has placed serious restrictions: citizens who donate live organs must be at least 18 years old and be in possession of full civil capacities; and the live organ recipient must be the spouse, direct blood relative, or within three generations of collateral blood relatives. Gao Zhisheng, aged 42, a human rights lawyer in Beijing (the subject of previously transmitted communications, see above). On 15 August 2006, he was residing with his sister in the city of Yingshe, Shadong Province. At noon, ten to twelve plain clothes officers of the Beijing Public Security Bureau entered the house and detained him “for questioning related to his suspected involvement in criminal activities”. It is reported that Mr Gao had been under strict surveillance by the secret police for several months prior to this. The day before he was detained, the phone of the house where he was residing was disconnected,