E/CN.4/2006/6/Add.6 page 55 police station told her that she had been sent back home, ‘perhaps at the instruction of the foreign ministry’. When she arrived home at 1pm, the police told her ‘if you meet with these UN people, tell them that we are not at your home anymore.’ Over the last 8 years she has been put under house arrest approximately once a month dating from the time that her husband, He Depu, was arrested. As she has been taken away many times by the police, all her colleagues know about it. She estimates that 100 days in each year she is under house arrest, most recently during the Bush and Rice visits. On 22 November, upon learning that Ms. Jia Jianying had been prevented by the authorities from meeting with him the previous night, the Special Rapporteur protested to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He interviewed her on the evening of 24 November. 9. While the Ministry of Foreign Affairs promised to provide, in writing, information concerning the above events, the Special Raporteur has not received any written comments to date. However, following his protest to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Special Rapporteur was provided orally with the following information: The Special Rapporteur was informed that Ms. Jia Jianying had asked the police whether or not she could meet with him. The police gave their assent. However, Ms Jia Jianying changed her mind and decided to attend a work seminar instead which was taking place outside of Beijing. As the seminar was shorter than she envisaged, she was able to return early to Beijing where she met with the Special Rapporteur on 24 November 2005. 10. Li Shan Na, aged 25, Beijing. (Interview in Beijing on 24 November 2005) She is the wife of Xu Yunghai, a doctor and a Christian. Her husband, who reportedly helped publish an article about the persecution of a nun in Anshan City, was taken away from the hospital where they worked, together with herself, by officers of Beijing Municipal Police Bureau in November 2003, on suspicion of illegally releasing information (‘intelligence’) to foreign organizations. They were taken to the Fengsheng Police Station and questioned for seven hours and later released. The police, without a search warrant, then took her husband to his home to conduct a search. Her husband’s office was also searched. After the search, Ms. Li did not know where the police had taken her husband. Three months later she learned that he was being detained in Anshan City, Xiaaoshau District. The first court hearing was on 1 March 2004 in Hanjzhou City. At first she was told that she could not attend the hearing but after insisting with the party secretary at the hospital where she worked, he allowed her to go on the assurance that she would not create any sort of trouble and that she sign a document to this effect. She refused to sign. On arrival in Hanjzhou she was told that she could not attend the hearing because it was not public as it concerned state secrets. She managed to gain access to her husband’s second hearing in August 2004. At this hearing she received her husband’s arrest warrant. She visited her husband for the first time in November 2004 in Xijiao Prison in Hanjzhou. At the meeting he told her that he had been beaten by other inmates at Hanjzhou Detention Centre. He felt that the beatings were at the instigation of the police because they saw what was happening but did not intervene. The effects which she brought to him in prison were all confiscated. Other inmates seemed to know a lot about his personal details including his bank account details which he assumed they could only have learned about from the police officers. Inmates continued to beat him. This is the only visit she has made as he is being detained far away. Ms. Li pointed out that according to law, her husband’s two year sentence, which he will complete on 29 January 2006, should have been calculated as beginning at the point of arrest. However, the sentence only started as of the second hearing when she first received his arrest warrant. Ms. Li recounted recent restrictions on her freedom of movement. On 17 November 2005, prior