A/HRC/4/33/Add.1 Page 60 Para 40. Country Date 11/08/06 Type JAL Mandate RINT; TOR; Trafficking; Allegations transmitted Government Response Eastern Lightning group. Xu was also accused of defrauding his congregation of over thirty-two million Yuan. Xu Shuangfu, was kidnapped in April 2004 by gun-wielding men in a police car while visiting congregation members in neighboring Haerbin, Heilongjian Province. Reports indicate that he was held incommunicado for some time before his family was informed of his detention. Concern has been expressed that Xu Shuangfu and Li Maoxing confessed to their murder charges under torture and subsequently denied their guilt during their trial which was held at the Shuangyashan Intermediate Court, from 28 February to 3 March 2006. Organ harvesting. Organ harvesting has been inflicted on a large number of unwilling Falun Gong practitioners at a wide variety of locations, for the purpose making available organs for transplant operations. Vital organs including hearts, kidneys, livers and corneas were systematically harvested from Falun Gong practitioners at Sujiatan Hospital, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, beginning in 2001. The practitioners were given injections to induce heart failure, and therefore were killed in the course of the organ harvesting operations or immediately thereafter. It is reported that employees of the following transplant centres have indicated that they have used organs from live Falun Gong practitioners for transplants: Zhongshan Hospital Organ Transplant Clinic in Shanghai, Qianfoshan City Liver Transplant Hospital in Shangdong, Nanning City Minzu Hospital in Guangxi On 4 July 2006 the court handed down its sentence: Xu Shuangfu and Li Maoxing were found guilty of the crimes of murder, wilful and malicious injury, unlawful detention and fraud, for which they were sentenced to death, in accordance with the law; they were also deprived of their political rights for life and their personal property was confiscated. In conducting this trial, the Chinese judicial authorities adhered to the facts of the case, took the law as their criterion, applied the law properly and proceeded in accordance with the law. By letter dated 28/11/06, the Government reported that in March 2006, Falun Gong began fabricating the so-called “Sujiatun concentration camp” issue, saying that 6,000 practitioners had been incarcerated in Sujiatun Hospital in Shenyang, Liaoyang Province, and that two thirds of them had had organs removed from their living bodies and the corpses cremated to destroy the evidence. In order to clarify the facts, the Sujiatun District government carried out an investigation at the hospital; domestic and foreign media including Japan’s NHK and Hong Kong’s Phoenix Satellite Network and Ta Kung Pao conducted on-site interviews; and two visits were paid by US consular personnel. Based on the results of these investigations it was discovered that the hospital only had 300 beds and was completely incapable of housing more than