A/HRC/4/33/Add.1 Page 69 Para 47. Country Date Type Mandate Allegations transmitted Shi Xing-wu and Wu Ze-heng (E/CN.4/2006/6/Add.1, para. 25). Government Response families while being held in preventive detention and they have freely admitted that they had committed serious offences, and have shown themselves to be extremely repentant. When the procurator’s office commenced its examination of the appeal stage of the proceedings, the suspects complained to the procuratorial authorities that the investigative officers had extorted confessions from them by the use of torture and showed abrasions on their wrists to prove it. The oversight division of the Leping People’s Security Bureau conducted a special investigation, but did not find any evidence that the investigating officers had extorted confessions by torture. An examination of the criminal suspects revealed that the abrasions on their wrists and the resulting bruising had been caused by pressure from the clasps of their handcuffs (because of the gravity of the offences committed by the four offenders, the investigating officers had put handcuffs on them, as provided for by law). By letter dated 18/04/06, the Government reported that Wu Zeheng, also known as Wu Wenheng and Wu Zeheng, prior to his arrest, was the legal representative and director of the Beijing Huazang Consulting Centre. On 2 November 2001 he was sentenced by the Beijing Supreme People’s Court to 11 years’ imprisonment (from 31 July 1999 to 30 July 2010) and deprived of his political rights for 2 years for the crimes of illegal business