E/CN.4/1994/31 page 33 device, and left hanging like this for a long time. In August 1992 he was transferred to another prison in Quanzhou city where he is said to have been subjected to frequent beatings as a result of which he now suffers from hearing impairment and his hands shake constantly. According to the Government, Chen Zhuman was investigated as the law prescribes in December 1991 for involvement in illegal activities and assigned in 1992 to three years’ re-education through labour. He has never undergone beatings, verbal abuse or corporal punishment. (g) Fan Xueyan, aged 84, former bishop of Baoding, Hebei province, was arrested in November 1990 and remained missing until he died in April 1992. On the night of 16 April 1992 his body was reportedly delivered to his family by Public Security officers who did not give any explanation as to the cause of his death. The only official statement was made by a spokesman for the official Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association who explained that he had died of pneumonia. However, photographs of his body showed a large pinkish-purple mark on the side of his face and marks of apparent injuries on his legs. (h) Khangsa Gyaltsen, a trader from Thentho Xiang, Zogang Dzong, was arrested on 7 July 1989 for having participated in a demonstration. He was detained in Chamdo where he allegedly underwent severe torture and was kept in solitary confinement. On 7 December 1990 he was transferred to Reform-through-Labour Unit No. 2 and is reportedly in very poor health. According to the Government, the investigation of Khangsa Gyaltsen’s circumstances is pending. (i) Laba Dunzhu (Lawa Dondrup or Lhapka Dondrup) was sentenced in 1989 to two-and-a-half years’ imprisonment and sent to Gutsa detention centre in Lhasa. He reportedly was subjected to several kinds of torture, such as being hung from his arms which were chained behind his back and beaten on his back and abdomen while suspended. In winter, when it was very cold, he is said to have been made to lie down on the ground completely naked for one to two hours. He is reported to have suffered many injuries as a result of the torture, including a ruptured spleen, and to have become severely ill. He died in November 1991 at the People’s Hospital in Lhasa. (j) Li Lin, a worker from Hengyang, and his brother Li Zhi, were arrested in Hengyang, Hunan province, in 1991. They were first held for a few days at the Baishazhou investigation centre and then transferred to the Wanjiawan detention centre in Hengyang. According to the reports, they were beaten on several occasions during interrogation by being punched with fists and prodded repeatedly with an electric baton. They were released after five months. According to the Government, Li Lin and Li Zhi were arrested in Hengyang, Hunan, in 1991; they were released five months later, and subsequently left the country. While in captivity they were not severely beaten. (k) Lobsang Tsondrue, a prisoner at Drapchi prison in Lhasa, was allegedly severely beaten and put in solitary confinement after a protest which took place in the prison in April 1991. According to the Government, Lobsang Tsondrue, sentenced by the Lhasa Municipal People’s Intermediate Court to six years’ imprisonment for involvement in illegal separatist activities, was sentenced by the prison, in accordance with the law, to a short period