A/HRC/7/3/Add.1 page 70 Para Country Date Type Mandate Allegations transmitted Government response sentenced to 13 years’ fixed-term imprisonment by the Fangshan district people’s court in Beijing for the offence of using a heretical sect to engage in criminal activities and stripped of his political rights for 3 years. He is currently serving his sentence in Jilin city penitentiary in Jilin province. In December 2005, when undergoing a health check-up in prison, Zhang was found to be suffering from tuberculosis, but he maintained his firm conviction that, as a Falun Gong practitioner, when he fell ill he should not take any medicine or receive any injections, and that, as he himself was a disciple of the “dafa” - the major law, the master’s “dharma body” would protect and save him, and for these reasons he refused medical treatment. In February 2006, the prison management found that his condition had taken a turn for the worse, and only after being repeatedly advised and encouraged did he agree to receive treatment. While in hospital, Zhang received meticulous medical treatment and nursing care; his condition has now clearly improved and in clinical terms, he has been cured of his illness. He has undergone two medical examinations by Jilin City Central Hospital and showed no symptoms of fever; his breathing was smooth; both lungs free of rales; his heart rate normal and heartbeat regular and without murmur; his blood routine, erythrocyte sedimentation rate and myocardial enzyme count all normal; and his ECG normal. The results of a frontal chest X-ray show a calcification focus in the right pulmonary field. Zhang’s family members enquired as to whether