A/HRC/4/33/Add.1
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Para
39.
Country
Date
18/07/06
Type
JUA
Mandate
SUMX;
TOR;
Allegations transmitted
Government Response
Center in Cangzhou City. On 10 June 2006, Mr
Chen Guangcheng was charged with “deliberate
destruction of property” and “organizing a mob to
disrupt traffic”, allegedly after he had spent 89
days in incommunicado detention in the Yinan
County Detention Centre, where he remains. It is
reported that he was arrested on 11 March 2006
but that his family were not informed of his
whereabouts until 11 June 2006. It is still unknown
whether Mr Chen Guangcheng has been finally
allowed to see his lawyer.
an investigation into his actions. On 21 June
his remand in detention was approved by the
procuratorial authorities and, on 26 June, the
matter was referred to the procuratorial
authorities for review and prosecution. On 4
July, the Yinan County Procurator’s Office
referred his case to the Yinan County People’s
Court for prosecution for the offences of wilfully
causing damage to property and assembling a
crowd for the purpose of disrupting traffic.On
24 August, the Yinan County People’s Court
instituted proceedings in this case. As the
offender in this case is blind, leniency could be
applied in his case. That same day, the Yinan
County People’s Court decided as the court of
first instance to sentence Chen to seven
months’ fixed-term imprisonment for the
offence of wilfully causing damage to property
and to four years’ fixed-term imprisonment for
the offence of gathering a crowd to disrupt
traffic and ordered him, accordingly, to serve a
sentence of four years’ and three months’
fixed-term imprisonment. During the legal
proceedings in this case, the court fully upheld
the defendant’s rights in litigation and in the
courtroom his two defence lawyers were able
to provide full defence services.
By letter dated 21/08/06, the Government
reported that from 28 February to 3 March
2006 the Shuangyashan Intermediate People’s
Court in Heilongjiang Province conducted an
open trial in the criminal cases brought against
Xu Shuangfu and others for a series of crimes.
Mr Xu Shuangfu (also known as Xu Wenku) and
Mr Li Maoxing , two Chinese religious leaders
belonging to a group known as “the Three Grades
of Servants” who were sentenced to death on 28
June 2006. They were accused of murdering
twenty leaders of a religious group known as the
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