E/CN.4/1995/91/Add.1 page 10 Father Fangzhan Gao, of the diocese of Yixian, Hebei province, is said to have been arrested in 1991 by plain-clothes police on the outskirts of the village of Shizhu, in Dingxing county. Father Xinsan Li, of the diocese of Anguo, Hebei province, and Father Zhongpei, of the same province, are reportedly two of the priests who were to have been released by the Chinese authorities in March 1993. They have apparently not been seen again at their respective domiciles. It is said that they were sentenced to three years’ re-education through labour and have been detained in a labour camp at Tangshan since their arrest in December 1990. Father Haiging Liao, aged 63, of the diocese of Yujiang, Jiangxi province, was allegedly arrested, for the fourth time, on 16 August 1992 by some 20 members of the Political Security Bureau and the Religious Affairs Bureau while celebrating mass at about 6.30 a.m. at his home in Fuzhou before the eyes of over 200 worshippers crammed into his house and around it. Already twice sentenced, before 1980, to 8 to 5 years’ imprisonment respectively, he was reportedly ordained a priest shortly before being rearrested on 19 November 1981 and given a further 10-year sentence. Released in July 1991, he was allegedly detained for a time at Nanchang Prison No. 4. Father Heping Liu, aged 28, was reportedly arrested on 13 February 1991 at his home in the village of Shizhu, Dingxing county, Hebei province. There has apparently been no news of this priest, who had allegedly already been arrested once on 4 June 1990. From the same province, Father Paul Shimin Liu, aged 32, was reportedly arrested at Xiefangying, Xushui county, on 14 December 1990, while Father Ma Zhiyuan and four seminarists are said to have been arrested on 12 December 1991 at Houzhuang in the same country. The fate of Father Guojun Pei, of the diocese of Yixian, and of deacon Ma Shunbao, aged 42, arrested on 29 January and 6 November 1991 respectively in the province of Hebei, is still unknown. Father Zhenping Pei, a young Trappist priest, who was apparently trained outside the fold of the official Chinese Catholic Church, was allegedly arrested on 21 October 1989 in the village of Youtong, Luancheng county, Hebei province, where he lived and worked. According to reports, he was sentenced to an indefinite term and in March 1993 was still being detained. Bishop Cosmas Enxiang Shi, aged 71, of the diocese of Yixian, was reportedly arrested in mid-December 1990, detained by the Public Security Bureau of Xushui county and sent for a month of ’study sessions’ to Handan, since when apparently all trace of him has been lost. Several Catholic laymen from Baoding, Hebei province, have allegedly been arrested. They include Guohui Shi, Dapeng Zhang and his wife Zhongye Zhao, all three said to have been arrested in mid-December 1990. Zhang was reportedly sentenced to three years’ re-education through labour, while his wife was released after three months’ detention, arrested once again in 1992 and sentenced to the same