E/CN.4/2006/6/Add.6 page 53 disease and half of his body is numb. It is reported that he was transferred through eight prisons and that the worst prison was Su Jia Tong Prison where the prisoners were not allowed to wash their faces, were allowed 3 controlled toilet visits per day and fed one steamed cornflour bun a day. 5. Li Jianfeng (The interview took place on 22 November 2005 with his father, Li Jinghong, in Beijing). According to his father, Li Jenfeng was formerly the Chief Judge of the Intermediate Court of Lingde City, Fujian Province. He is presently carrying out a 16-year sentence for subversion in Jian Yang No.2 Prison. Li Jianfeng was detained on 31 October 2003 along with seven other accomplices, all of whom were allegedly tortured during police interrogation. It is believed that he was arrested for defending vulnerable groups and for exposing the alleged corruption of the City Secretary. In the Criminal Investigative Brigade of Lin De City, Li Jianfeng was imprisoned in a small iron cage measuring less than 1m² for 11 days. During this time, a strong spotlight was shone into the cage 24 hours a day, he was deprived of water and denied access to a medical doctor. His father reported that electric batons discharging high voltage electric shocks were used on his son’s eyes and on the tips of his ears. Before formal imprisonment he was transferred through 5 pre trial detention centres. It is reported that when he arrived to a new pre trial detention centre, the staff would tell the veteran detainees to torture and hit the new arrivals. As a result of this his son reportedly suffered a cerebral swelling and suffers from headaches, fainting, dizziness and ringing in the ear. It is alleged that he fainted when he was in San Ming City pre trail detention centre. It was also reported that Li Jianfeng’s wife, who was Deputy Head of Ling De District, was also detained for 5 months - no reason was given for her detention. After her release she was demoted to researcher. 6. Ma Yalian, aged 42 (telephone interview 23 November 2005) Shanghai. Since 1998, in connection with a petition she has brought concerning her illegal eviction from her property, without compensation or temporary shelter, she alleges that she has been targeted by authorities by means of arbitrary detention to prevent her from further pursuing her complaint. Examples include administrative detention for 34 days on 23 April 2001 for disrupting court order, and violation of bail. She was detained at Huangpu Detention Centre on 24 July 2001 for five hours, after being arrested without warrant by Shanghai police in Beijing for seeking administrative review at the Beijing Supreme People’s Court and State Letter and Visits Bureau; and following a meeting with the State Letter and Visits Bureau on 7 September 2001, she was taken to the Fengtai Detention Centre for five days before taken back to Shanghai and detained at a detention facility for one year to serve an RTL sentence. On 19 February 2004, she was sentenced to 18 months’ RTL for revealing the truth about the conditions of detention there. At the camp she was subjected to the “Cadillac” technique, where she was tied to a chair with a wide band of cloth bound tightly against her abdomen. She was stripped naked from the lower half of her body, left restrained like this for almost three days, and denied access to a toilet. She sustained swollen hands and pain in her abdomen. When she complained, fellow prisoners were ordered to beat her on three occasions. Because she ate little, she was deemed to have gone on hunger-strike and was sent to the Ti Lan Qiao Prison Hospital. There she was bound by her hands and feet to a bed, with a band across her torso for 18 days. She was denied access to a toilet. If she protested, the restraints would be tightened. Ma Ya Lian was sent to a smaller ward and given water sips at a time. If she wet her bed, she was slapped in the face by fellow prisoners. She alleges that authorities from Ximeng Police Station, Shanghai, have detained her from 14 to 21 November 2005 at Daguan Garden, Qingpu, Shanghai, as a result of