Recommendation (E/CN.4/2006/6/Add.6) ―supplying of State secrets to individuals abroad‖ etc. should be abolished. 8 This category includes crimes such as ―subversion‖, ―illegally providing state secrets to overseas entities‖, ―splittism‖, and espionage. For information about Uighurs and other ethnic minorities charged and sentenced for crimes of ―endangering state security‖, see Uighur journalist detained, risks torture (Index: ASA 17/060/2009, 30 October 2009, available online at: http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/ASA17/060/2009/en); Tibetan film-maker may face unfair trial, Dhondup Wangchen (Index: ASA 21 A/HRC/19/61/Add.3 7 Steps taken in previous years Situation in during visit in 2005 (See A/HRC/4/33/Add.2, A/HRC/7/3/Add.2, Information received in the (See E/CN.4/2006/6/Add.6) A/HRC/10/44/Add.5 and A/HRC/16/52/Add.2) reporting period security‖ in 2008, up from 742 arrested and 619 religion, speech and assembly. indicted in 2007. It is reported that on July 13, China‘s SPC issued detailed statistics regarding the handling of various categories of criminal offenses. According to these statistics the number of firstinstance trials concluded involving ―endangering state security (ESS) rose to around 760 in 2009, from around 460 in 2008.7 The SPC report also stated that the proportion of individuals charged with ―endangering state security‖ crimes that received heavy sentences—defined as a prison term of five years or more, life imprisonment, or a death sentence (including suspended death sentence) rose by 20 percent in 2009. - Concern is raised in particular regarding the impact of the increased use of ―endangering State security‖ and other political crimes to charge and convict ethnic minorities for alleged ―splittist‖ activities, particularly in the context of the unrest in both the Tibet Autonomous Region and the XUAR in 2008 and 2009. According to information published in the Xinjiang Yearbook, from 1998 to 2003, more than half of all trials involving the charge of ―endangering state security‖ were adjudicated in the XUAR. - According to the report of the president of the XUAR Higher People‘s Court in January 2010, there was an increase from 268 in 2008 to 437 cases of ―endangering state security‖ adjudicated in the XUAR, an increase of 63%. Sentences of at least 10 years in prison, life imprisonment or the death penalty had reportedly been imposed on 255 individuals. 8