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ensure that Mr. Yafeng obtains redress, including fair and adequate compensation, and as
full rehabilitation as possible.
(c) JUA 03/03/2011 Case No. CHN 5/2011 State reply: None to date Alleged pattern of
arrests, detentions, enforced disappearances and intimidations of human rights
defenders and lawyers.
37.
The Special Rapporteur regrets that the Government of China has not responded to
this communication, thereby failing to cooperate with the mandate issued by the Human
Rights Council. The communication referred to the reported interrogation, arrest, detention,
and forced disappearance of human rights activists and lawyers following the 20 February
2011 call for protests inspired by the so-called “Jasmine Revolution.” In the absence of
evidence to the contrary, the Special Rapporteur concludes that the rights of the named
individuals under the UN Convention against Torture have been violated, and urgently calls
on the Government of China to undertake a prompt and impartial investigation, leading to
prosecution and punishment of the perpetrators, and to provide full redress to the victims,
including restitution and measures of non-repetition. The Special Rapporteur also calls on
the Government of China to abolish the practice of incommunicado and unacknowledged
detention.
(d) JUA 25/03/2011 Case No. CHN 7/2011 State reply: 16/05/2011 Alleged isolation and
inadequate medical care in prison.
38.
The Special Rapporteur thanks the Government of China for its response, dated 16
May 2011, to this communication in reference to the conditions of detention of Mr. Jigme
Gyatso. In its reply, the Government confirmed that Mr. Gyatso was sentenced to 15 years
imprisonment and 5 years deprivation of political rights by the Lhasa Municipal
Intermediate People's Court on charges of “threat to national security,” and that while in
prison in 2004 Mr. Gyatso was sentenced to 3 additional years of prison on charges of
“seeking to divide the country and damage its unity” for his support of Tibetan
independence. The Government confirmed that Mr. Jigme Gyatso “suffers from chronic
gastritis, high blood pressure, neuritis and arthritis, and has been hospitalized many times
for medical treatment,” and indicated that treatment continued when he left the hospital.
The Government reported that in September 2010, Mr. Gyatso “was not granted the right to
see relatives for breaking prison rules,” and indicated that visits “resumed to normal
frequency in October.” Finally, the Government stated that “Mr. Jigme Gatso did not lodge
any complaint, nor did his [sic] request to a third party to lodge any complaint on his
behalf.” In light of the information received, the Special Rapporteur determines that the
rights of Mr. Jigme Gyatso under the UN Convention against Torture have been violated.
The Special Rapporteur takes note of Mr. Gyatso's deteriorating health conditions. The
Special Rapporteur also urges the Government of China to investigate the allegations of
torture, leading to prosecution and punishment of the perpetrators, and to provide redress to
Mr. Gyatso, including provision of appropriate and adequate medical care. He also
reiterates the Rapporteurship‟s previous recommendation that since Mr. Gyatso had been
convicted of a political crime, possibly on the basis of information extracted by torture, he
should be released. Mr. Gyatso was the subject of earlier communications (see
A/HRC/7/3/Add.1, para 35; and A/HRC/13/39/Add.1, para 30).
(e) JUA 21/04/2011 Case No. CHN 9/2011 State reply: 30/05/2011 Alleged harassment of
monastic community.
39.
The Special Rapporteur thanks the Government of China for its response, dated 30
May 2011, to this communication in reference to the reported detention of at least 33
individuals, including monks and laymen, were detained by security forces while publicly
protesting following a demonstration in which ten Tibetans were reportedly killed and one
monk, Mr. Phuntsok Jarutsang, set himself on fire. In its reply, the Government of China
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