A/HRC/7/3/Add.1
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Country
Date
Type
Mandate
Allegations transmitted
Government response
by prison guards when she attempted to inform
him of having been force-fed.
50.
Follow-up
to past
cases
Shi Xing-wu (E/CN.4/2006/6/Add.1, para. 25).
By letter dated 18/04/06, the Government
informed that on 2 November 2001 Wu Zeheng
was sentenced by the Beijing Supreme People’s
Court to 11 years’ imprisonment (from 21 July
1999 to 30 July 2010) and deprived of his political
rights for two years for the crime of illegal
business operations and unauthorized floating of
stocks. He is currently serving his sentence in the
Huaiji Prison in Guangdong Province. A physical
examination conducted after Wu entered prison
yielded a positive reaction for tuberculosis. As a
carrier of the tuberculin bacillus, he was treated
with medication and was cured; he did not
“suffer…from a fever of 40.2 Celsius”, and his
health is now normal. After entering prison Wu
was able to visit with family members for the time
prescribed by regulation, and he received more
than 80 letters and six parcels. He has submitted
written appeals to the National People’s Council
and to judicial bodies, which the prison authorities
always transmit promptly. Like other criminals, Wu
works eight hours a day; on no day does he ever
work more than 13 hours. Wu has never been
placed in solitary confinement, and the room
where he is detained has a surface area of 26.4
square metres and has excellent light and
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