E/CN.4/1994/31 page 31 152. Although the Criminal Procedure Law stipulates that a confession alone is insufficient evidence to find a person guilty, in practice a confession is often found sufficient when the other evidence of guilt is inadequate. It was also reported that the courts often ignore the allegations of torture made by detainees during the trials. 153. The investigation of torture allegations is reportedly inadequate and few investigations take place. The investigations are not public and the findings are not subject to public scrutiny. Perpetrators often receive only administrative sanctions, such as a transfer. If they are prosecuted, the punishments are often light. Many investigations are in fact dropped without the alleged perpetrators being prosecuted. (b) Individual cases transmitted to the Government 154. The 34 cases referred to in the following paragraphs were also transmitted to the Government, which replied concerning them on 22 November 1993. 155. An Fuxing, formerly a cadre at the Jilin Chemical Industry Corporation, in the Liaoning Province, was arrested in June 1989 on political charges and sentenced to five years’ imprisonment. It was alleged that during his stay at the No. 1 Squadron of the Training Brigade, a part of the Lingyuan No. 2 Labour-Reform Detachment of Liaoning Province, he was repeatedly beaten. He was also reportedly kept in solitary confinement in a tiny dark cell where he was stripped naked, held down on the floor and repeatedly given shocks with high voltage electric batons on various parts of his body. As a result, he allegedly fell into a state of shock and had to be taken to hospital, but as soon as he came back he was tortured again with electric batons. According to the Government, An Fuxing, was sentenced in March 1991 by the Jilin Municipal People’s Intermediate Court to five years’ imprisonment for involvement in illegal activities injurious to State security. He is now serving sentence at the Lingyuan No. 2 prison in Liaoning. He has been in consistently good health and has never stayed in hospital. 156. Li Jie, a prisoner from Jilin province also held at the Lingyuan No. 2 labour-reform detachment, was reportedly stripped naked, held down on the floor and tortured with 50,000 volt electric batons on several parts of his body after trying to stage a one-day hunger strike on 4 June 1991. According to the Government, Li Jie was sentenced in February 1992 by the Changchun Municipal People’s Intermediate Court to five years’ imprisonment for involvement in illegal activities injurious to State security. He is now serving sentence at the Lingyuan No. 2 prison. According to investigations, he has never been subjected to beatings or verbal abuse. 157. Zhang Ming, a prisoner at the Lingyuan No. 2 labour reform detachment, Liaoning province, was reportedly beaten and kicked for writing a poem on the wall on 4 February 1992. On 4 April 1992, the Brigade commander reportedly summoned him to his office and assaulted him by striking him with an electric baton on the chest, back and neck. According to the Government, Zhang Ming was sentenced to prison in 1991 by the Beijing Municipal People’s Intermediate Court for involvement in illegal activities injurious to State security, served his sentence in Lingyuan No. 2 prison and was released on 25 June 1992