E/CN.4/1995/91/Add.1 page 7 Chang Rhea-yu (or Zhang Ruiyu), aged 54, a member of one of the underground Protestant Churches in Fujian province, is reported to have had her house searched and to have been molested by members of the Public Security Bureau in May 1990. They allegedly inflicted burns on her face with their electric prods and broke several of her teeth. They then also apparently confiscated Bibles and religious literature. She was reportedly detained from 25 August 1990 and tried on 9 and 10 April 1991 for holding illegal meetings, distributing seditious propaganda, aimed in particular against the measures taken by the authorities during the events in Tiananmen Square, and for having corresponded with foreigners. She was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment and is reported now being held in a women’s prison in Fuzhou. Li Jiayao, aged 30, head of one of the underground Protestant Churches in Guangdong province, was reportedly arrested on 25 September 1990 and sentenced without trial on 17 September 1991 to three years of re-education through labour for having received and illegally distributed Bibles and foreign literature. He is thought to be currently held in Chek Li prison near Guangzhou. The police are said to have informed his family that he would be released only on payment of a fine of Y 5,000 ($900), Y 10,000 for a quicker release. His family is said to have rejected this arrangement. Yongze Xu, aged 52, of Nanyang, Zhenping country, Henan province, is said to have been released in May 1991, but to be kept under strict surveillance by the authorities. He was arrested twice in 1982 and 1988, on the second occasion being sentenced to three years’ imprisonment. He reportedly began his evangelistic activities as early as 1968 and helped to establish the New Birth Christian Movement, which spread to other provinces with the formation of some 3,000 local underground groups, many of whose members are said to have been arrested or detained subsequently. Chen Zhuman, aged 50, a member of the Church of the New Testament in Fujian, is reported to have been arrested on 14 December 1991 for his religious activities, including contacts with members of foreign churches, and to have been tortured by the police at the Putian county detention centre with a view to extracting a confession. In July 1992, he is said to have been sentenced without trial to three years’ re-education through labour and to have been transferred one month later to a prison in Quanzhou, Fujian, where he was severely beaten by guards and fellow prisoners. He is said to have lost his hearing and to be in a precarious state of health as a result of the torture he suffered. Pastor Moshan Xie, a well-known writer and evangelist, aged 70, is said to have been released on bail on 23 July 1992, but is reportedly still being kept under strict surveillance by the Shanghai Public Security Bureau. He had allegedly been arrested on 3 May 1992, on his return from Guangzhou, for having preached outside the area of his domicile and undertaken an illegal itinerant evangelization campaign. Pastor Xie had reportedly already been imprisoned from 1956 to 1980 for refusing to join the Three-Self Patriotic movement.