A/HRC/4/33/Add.1 Page 68 Para 46. Country Date Followup to past cases Type Mandate Allegations transmitted Huang Zhiqiang, Fang Chunping, Cheng Fagen and Cheng Lihe. (E/CN.4/2006/6/Add.1, para 24). Government Response By letter dated 12/01/06, the Government reported that on 19 June 2002, Huang Zhiqiang, Fang Chunping, Cheng Fagen and Cheng Lihe were arrested and they are currently being held in custody. Concerning the allegation that the four persons have been subjected to torture, the Leping People’s Procurator’s Office assigned two procuratorial officials to make a careful study of the case. These officials were present on numerous occasions when the suspects made statements and identified the scene of the crimes and they found no evidence at all that the investigating officers had employed any unlawful methods in their handling of the case, such as extorting confessions by torture, etc. Throughout the course of the investigation, the officials handling the case made sound and video recordings of the questioning of the defendants and the identification of the scene of the crime. The disc containing the sound and video recordings of the questioning of the four defendants and the identification of the scene of the crime was carefully studied and the recordings showed no evidence that the police had used beatings, verbal abuse, or threats; the criminal suspects were seen to be in a stable and calm state of mind and no harsh treatment was used against them: they showed no signs of fear or having been intimidated and freely confessed their crimes. The criminal suspects Huang Zhiqiang and Cheng Lihe are able to correspond with their