A/HRC/7/3/Add.1
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Para
49.
Country
Date
5/11/07
Type
JUA
Mandate
TOR;
HOUS;
HRD; VAW
Allegations transmitted
been released. Parents of two of these boys had
paid fines of 2000 Yuan each and pledged that
their sons would never leave the country or ever
again engage in any form of political activity. The
boys were initially held at a police station in
Amchok Bora and allowed to see their families
before plain-clothed officers believed to be state
security agents transferred them to the city of
Xiahe, Xiahe county. All were beaten during or
shortly after the arrest, one of whom sustained
head injuries and had to be hospitalised in Xiahe
county.
Ms. Mao Hengfeng (subject of previously
transmitted communications, see above). On 13
September 2007, prison authorities ordered a
fellow inmate to beat her for punishment for
revealing that she had been held in solitary
confinement for 70 days in July and August 2007,
in violation of Article 15 of the Chinese Prison
Law, which stipulates a maximum of 15 days for
solitary confinement. Ms. Mao was badly bruised
as a result of the beating. On 24 September 2007,
prison authorities sent her to Nanhui Prison
Hospital. She previously refused to undergo a
medical examination for fear that she would be
forcibly injected with drugs, as had happened
when she was held in a psychiatric institution in
the 1980s. At the hospital, her clothes were
removed and she was tied to a bed and force-fed
by other inmates. Ms. Mao’s husband was
prevented from visiting her at Shanghai Women’s
Prison until 26 October 2007. During his
supervised visit, Ms. Mao was repeatedly silenced
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