E/CN.4/1995/91/Add.1 page 11 term as her husband. During the interval between her two periods of detention she was allegedly banned from working, and was also made to pay for her husband’s bed and board in prison. Father Danian Wang, aged a little over 70, and his two sisters were allegedly arrested in June or July 1992 and accused of illegal missionary activities in Suzhou region, Jiangsu province. Though the two women were released on 26 August, Father Wang is apparently still being detained by the Changsu or Suzhou Public Security Bureau. Although on the list of prisoners who were to have been freed according to the announcement made by the Chinese authorities in March 1993, Father Jiansheng Wang, aged 40, has reportedly still not reappeared. Following his arrest on 19 May 1991, he is apparently still serving his sentence of three years’ re-education through labour at the Xuanhua detention centre, Hebei province. Tongsheng Wang, a Catholic layman aged 56, detained at the Chengde re-education centre, Hebei province, after being arrested on 23 December 1990 and sentenced to three years’ re-education through labour, had still not returned home in May 1993 despite the promise made by the authorities in March of the same year to release him. The same apparently applies to Father Jingyi Wei, a priest aged about 30, of the diocese of Yixian, Hebei province, who in May 1993 had not reappeared. Arrested in August 1990 at Harbin, Heilongjiang, he was reportedly sentenced, in March 1991, to three years’ re-education. His ordination at Baoding in the early 1980s was apparently never recognized by the official Chinese Catholic Church. Two priests, Father Xu Guoxin and Father Shixiang Xiao, aged 56, respectively, of the dioceses of Langfang and Yixian, Hebei province, were reportedly arrested in December 1991. The former is said to be serving a three-year re-education sentence, while it is thought that the latter is probably the priest who disappeared when on his way to Shandong province on 20 October 1989. Three Catholic laymen, Youzhong Zhang, Guoyan Zhang and Youshen Zhang, arrested in 1991, were to have been among the prisoners whose release had been announced by the Chinese Government. In May 1993 they had still not returned home. It is believed that Guoyan Zhang has been sentenced to three years’ re-education through labour for refusing to join the Catholic Patriotic Association. Youshen Zhang, for his part, is allegedly still in prison. Sentenced without trial to three years’ re-education through labour on 2 July 1991 for having written an article criticizing the above-mentioned Association, this retired publisher is reportedly being detained at the Hengshui labour camp. The charges against him include counter-revolutionary activities directed against the Chinese Communist Party and Government. Following his arrest in March 1991 the police allegedly ransacked Youshen Zhang’s home, confiscating prayer-books and hymnals. He is said to have gone for a long time without any visits by his family and to have endured