E/CN.4/2006/6/Add.6 page 48 material. Since he has been convicted of a political crime, possibly on the basis of information extracted by torture, the Special Rapporteur appeals to the Government that he be released. 21. Jigme Gyatsu. On 30 March 1996, he was arrested and beaten by the criminal investigation team. He was subsequently sentenced to 15 years imprisonment and 5 years deprivation of political rights on 25 November 1996 by Lhasa Municipal Intermediate People’s Court for the crime of endangering national security in connection with establishing an illegal organization. He told the Special Rapporteur that the ill treatment was worst in Gutsa, where he stayed for one year and one month. Since the persons he was charged together with had already confessed, he also decided to confess. He then was transferred to Drapchi Prison in April 1997. In one incident in March 2004, he yelled out, “Long live the Dalai Lama,” for which he was kicked and beaten, including with electric batons. The electric batons were used on his back and chest with painful effect, and ceased once the Chief of Police came and stopped it. After this incident his sentence was extended for an additional two years. He recalled that the general conditions in Drapchi were better than in Quishi Prison: better food, the cells were better lit and ventilated, and the temperatures inside were not as extreme in summers and winters. He can spend 3.5 hours per day outside of his cell. Since he has been convicted of a political crime, possibly on the basis of information extracted by torture, the Special Rapporteur appeals to the Government that he be released. C. Urumqi, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region VII. Urumqi Prison No. 3 (Visited on 29 November 2005) 22. The prison has a population of approximately 1925 male detainees. The Special Rapporteur was informed that this prison was in the process of moving to a new facility. One detainee told the Special Rapporteur that he is interrogated on a daily basis and that he was unable to communicate with his family. 23. Tohti Tunyaz Mozat (pen name Tohti Muzart), aged 46, an ethnic Uighur historian and author from Xinjiang. Tohti Tunyaz was a postgraduate student at the University of Tokyo in Japan specializing in China’s policy towards ethnic minorities. When he travelled back to the XUAR to collect material for his thesis (on the region’s history before the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949) he was arrested by agents of the State Security Bureau on February 6, 1998. He was formally charged on November 10, 1998, tried on March 10, 1999 in the Urumqi Municipal Intermediate People’s Court and later convicted and sentenced to 11 years imprisonment on appeal to Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Higher People’s Court for “inciting splittism” and “illegally procuring state secrets” on February 15, 2000. He is due for release on February 10, 2009. He told the Special Rapporteur that he had been held in a pretrial detention facility unknown to him for more than two years. At the beginning he was the only one in the cell. He was interrogated daily and said that he had not been physically tortured. He was unable to communicate with his family. He had two lawyers, who visited him six months after his arrest and before the prosecution stage. Only after the verdict in early 2000, when he was sentenced to 11 years’ imprisonment, was he put in a cell with other persons. After the two years he was brought immediately to Prison No. 3. He informed the Special Rapporteur that the guards are fairly respectful and kind and do not mistreat him verbally or physically. He has received visits from his family and writes letters. He works for eight hours a day doing technical