A/HRC/7/3/Add.1 page 47 Para 36. Country Date 25/01/07 Type JAL Mandate RINT; TOR Allegations transmitted Government response Further restrictions have been placed upon Mr. Gyatso regarding his monthly family visits rights and that his health is rapidly deteriorating. Earlier in 2006 he was hospitalized for several weeks and is currently unable to walk normally due to a leg injury. Also, contrary to information provided by Mr. Gyatso during his meeting with the Special Rapporteur on torture, Mr. Gyatso’s prison term was actually extended by three years for “inciting splittism” following the incident at TAR Prison. This means that Mr. Gyatso is scheduled for release only in 2014. been sentenced but not having served the sentence in its entirety, commits a new crime, a judgement shall be rendered in respect of the new offence; taking the crime into account, the duration of the combined punishment shall not exceed the length of the individual sentences taken together, nor shall it be any shorter than the longest of the individual sentences. It was pursuant to this provision that the Lhasa Intermediate People’s Court issued the abovementioned sentence in respect of Jinmei Jiacuo. After entering prison, Jinmei Jiacuo enjoyed the same rights and treatment as other criminals. From November 2005, before he met with the Special Rapporteur on the question of torture in November 2005, until the present he has remained in a double cell, and his conditions of detention have not changed; there is no substance to the allegation in the letter that “since meeting with the Special Rapporteur [he] has been ill-treated and held in solitary confinement in particularly restricted conditions”. Jinmei Jiacuo is currently in excellent health and receives regular visits from family members, and the allegations in the letter that “restrictions have been placed on [him] regarding his … family visits and that his health is rapidly deteriorating” are not true. By letter dated 19/03/07, the Government informed that it has carefully examined the matters referred to in the communication and, with particular attention to the request put forward in the communication that the Chinese Government explain the discrepancy in the number of Organ harvesting (see also A/HRC/4/33/Add.1, para. 40). A critical issue was not addressed in the Government’s previous responses, in particular: It is reported that there are many more organ transplants than identifiable sources of organs, even taking into account figures for identifiable

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