A/HRC/4/33/Add.1 Page 59 Para 39. Country Date 18/07/06 Type JUA Mandate SUMX; TOR; Allegations transmitted Government Response Center in Cangzhou City. On 10 June 2006, Mr Chen Guangcheng was charged with “deliberate destruction of property” and “organizing a mob to disrupt traffic”, allegedly after he had spent 89 days in incommunicado detention in the Yinan County Detention Centre, where he remains. It is reported that he was arrested on 11 March 2006 but that his family were not informed of his whereabouts until 11 June 2006. It is still unknown whether Mr Chen Guangcheng has been finally allowed to see his lawyer. an investigation into his actions. On 21 June his remand in detention was approved by the procuratorial authorities and, on 26 June, the matter was referred to the procuratorial authorities for review and prosecution. On 4 July, the Yinan County Procurator’s Office referred his case to the Yinan County People’s Court for prosecution for the offences of wilfully causing damage to property and assembling a crowd for the purpose of disrupting traffic.On 24 August, the Yinan County People’s Court instituted proceedings in this case. As the offender in this case is blind, leniency could be applied in his case. That same day, the Yinan County People’s Court decided as the court of first instance to sentence Chen to seven months’ fixed-term imprisonment for the offence of wilfully causing damage to property and to four years’ fixed-term imprisonment for the offence of gathering a crowd to disrupt traffic and ordered him, accordingly, to serve a sentence of four years’ and three months’ fixed-term imprisonment. During the legal proceedings in this case, the court fully upheld the defendant’s rights in litigation and in the courtroom his two defence lawyers were able to provide full defence services. By letter dated 21/08/06, the Government reported that from 28 February to 3 March 2006 the Shuangyashan Intermediate People’s Court in Heilongjiang Province conducted an open trial in the criminal cases brought against Xu Shuangfu and others for a series of crimes. Mr Xu Shuangfu (also known as Xu Wenku) and Mr Li Maoxing , two Chinese religious leaders belonging to a group known as “the Three Grades of Servants” who were sentenced to death on 28 June 2006. They were accused of murdering twenty leaders of a religious group known as the

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