E/CN.4/1995/91/Add.1 page 13 unable, in January 1993, to get in touch with him. The Bishop is said to be diabetic and paralysed on the right-hand side as a result of a cerebral haemorrhage, and therefore totally dependent on the care perhaps administered to him under ’strict surveillance’ in an institution for aged persons. Bishop Paul Shuhe Liu, aged 69, second bishop of Yixian, Hebei province, is reportedly suffering from a very serious kidney ailment and not receiving the care his state of health requires. Sentenced in October 1988 to three years’ re-education through labour for possessing a typewriter and two copies of ’illegal’ sermons, Bishop Liu is said to have been temporarily released to receive the medical care he required for cirrhosis of the liver. Placed under restricted residence until mid-December 1990, he was reportedly then taken to a re-education centre to finish his sentence, which was due to end in December 1991. Since then, according to reports, his family have applied in vain to the Public Security Bureau to be allowed to visit him and obtain his release. In the spring of 1992, it is said, the Bishop finally gave his guards the slip and joined the underground. He is reportedly now in hiding. (b) Chinese Catholics who have been released but are being kept under strict surveillance The following is a list of bishops most of whom were allegedly arrested after the Clandestine Bishops’ Conference held in November 1989. It is said that they were released recently but that they are often kept under strict surveillance by the authorities or subject to restricted residence. Auxiliary Jesuit Bishop Joseph Zhongliang Fan, aged 73, acting bishop of Shanghai, is said to have been released in August 1991 and subjected to restricted residence in the outskirts of the town after having spent 15 years in prison (1967 to 1982). He is allegedly kept under surveillance by 2 police officers 24 hours a day, prohibited from travelling and subjected to frequent questioning and intimidation. Moreover, at least once or twice a month he is allegedly answerable to the Public Security Bureau for his actions and the persons he meets. Bishop Wenzhi Guo, aged 73, bishop of Harbin, Heilongqiang province, is allegedly denied permission to leave Qiqhar, his village of origin. He was reportedly arrested on 14 December 1989 and released in March 1990. It is said that he has already been imprisoned on two occasions, namely, from 1954 to 1964 and from 1966 to 1985, in a labour camp in the Xinjiang autonomous region. Bishop Bartholomew Chengdi Yu, aged about 73, secretly ordained bishop of the diocese of Hangzhong, Shaanxi province in 1981, was allegedly arrested in December 1989 together with his brother, Father Chengxin. Loyal to the Vatican, it is said that he was released a few months later and has since then been subject to restricted residence at Chengdu.