A/HRC/4/33/Add.1 Page 67 Para 45. Country Date 01/12/06 Type JUA Mandate WGAD; RINT; TOR; Allegations transmitted 15 August 2006 when he was arrested without a warrant at his sister’s house in Dongying City in Shandong Province, by more than 20 plain clothes police officers from the Beijing Public Security Bureau. According to reports, the official Xinhua News Agency released a statement on 18 August 2006 stating that Mr Gao had been arrested “on suspicion of breaking the law” however details of the alleged crime he had committed were not provided. Zhang Hongwei, member of Falun Gong, residing at Tonghua District, Jilin Province, currently detained at Jilin Prison. His health condition is severe. By the beginning of 2006, he was diagnosed with type III tuberculosis. Body fluid was accumulating in his chest and in March 2006 he also suffered from pleurisy, high blood pressure and heart disease. Thereafter, he was transferred to the prison hospital, however, still illtreated by prison guards. Several applications by Mr Zhang’s family for medical parole and access to his x-rays were refused. Further, his family was denied permission to visit him. Concern is expressed as regards his deteriorating health and physical integrity, also in view of his incommunicado and solitary detention. Mr Zhang was arrested in Beijing and sentenced to 11 years of imprisonment in 2001. Later that year he was transferred to Tiebei Prison in Changchun city, where he went on a 53 day hunger strike, and then, in March 2002, to Jilin Prison. There, Mr Zhang was held in solitary confinement for two years and five months and ill-treated. Government Response