A/HRC/7/3/Add.1 page 52 Para 38. Country Date 13/03/07 Type JUA Mandate FRDX; HRD; TOR Allegations transmitted Government response the listed number for the local police were dismissed as a wrong number, or the recipient hung up when enquiries were made as to Mr. Jamyang Gyatso’s whereabouts. Mr. Jamyang Gyatso is currently being detained at an unknown location. Ablikim Abduriyim (subject of previously transmitted communications (E/CN.4/2006/95/Add.1, para. 85 and A/HRC/4/37/Add.1, para. 152). He is currently being detained at Tianshan Detention Centre in Urumchi, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR). Mr. Abduriyim was arrested on 13 June 2006, along with his brothers Mr. Alim Abduriyim and Mr. Kahar Abduriyim. Subsequently, Mr. Ablikim Abdiriyim was subjected to prolonged interrogations and beatings whilst awaiting trial. As a result of this treatment and the detention conditions, he is suffering from ill health. However, he is being denied access to medical treatment. He has also been prevented from wearing warm clothes provided by his family. Furthermore, on 26 November 2006, Mr. Ablikim Abduriym was seen being carried out of Tianshan Detention Centre on a stretcher. On 28 January 2007, Mr. Abduriyim was charged and tried with "subversion of state power", "ethnic separatism" and "sending information over the Internet to Ms. Kadeer". February, the Chinese security authorities ordered that he be placed under restricted freedom of movement, on his own recognizance, pending trial. By letter dated 17/07/07, the Government informed the on 13 June 2006, he was taken into custody. The Urumchi city people’s procurator’s office in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region laid charges against the defendant Ablikim Abdureyim for the offence of incitement to separatism and instituted proceedings against him with the Urumchi city people’s intermediate court. On 17 April 2007, the Urumchi city people’s intermediate level court handed down its judgement and published its verdict: pursuant to the provisions of article 103, paragraph 2, article 56, article 55, paragraph 1, and article 106 of the Criminal Code of the People’s Republic of China, Ablikim Abdureyim was sentenced to nine years’ fixed term imprisonment and stripped of his political rights for three years, for the offence of incitement to separatism. In the course of this case, the courts, in accordance with the law, safeguarded Ablikim Abdureyim’s lawful rights. Ablikim Abdureyim did not appoint defence counsel, nor did he request the court to assign a defence lawyer on his behalf. Article 34 of the Chinese Code of Criminal Procedure provides that, “if a defendant is blind, deaf or mute, or is a minor, and has not appointed defence counsel,” or “could be sentenced to death, but has not