E/CN.4/1995/91/Add.1 page 6 In Queshan country, Henan province, 80 members of the underground Protestant Church are reported to have been arrested and detained by the police in April 1992. A month later, the police allegedly also interrupted a religious service being held in a private house belonging to Chai Danghe. Statues and hassocks were reportedly confiscated before the premises were closed down. On 15 June, members of the Public Security Bureau armed with electric prods are said to have forced their way into another house and beaten the 100 so worshippers assembled there, a dozen of whom were reportedly detained and interrogated before being released a few weeks later. All the persons involved in this incident were subsequently placed under house arrest. In December 1992, some 100 Protestants are reported to have been thrown into prison in Guoyang, northern Anhui province. Their release was delayed after they refused to pay heavy fines. The police reportedly reacted by carrying out searches of the homes of the persons detained and confiscating their property and livestock. Individual cases Zhongxun Pei, aged 75, an evangelist of Korean origin in Shanghai, was reportedly arrested in August 1983 for having, among other things, played a leading role in the underground Protestant Church in the region of Shanghai and for having received a large number of Bibles from abroad and distributed them to his fellow Protestants of Korean origin in China. Sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment, he is thought to be held in Shanghai prison No. 2. Although he is exempted from working and is housed in a private cell, his precarious state of health is said to be causing concern to his family, who fear that he may die in prison before the end of his term in five years’ time. Guoxing Xu, aged 38, a leader of an underground Protestant Church in Shanghai, was allegedly arrested on 14 March 1989, released on 16 June after numerous interrogations, rearrested on 6 November 1989 by the Public Security Bureau in Shanghai and sentenced on 18 November 1990 to three years’ re-education through labour for having disrupted the social order and encouraged unrest. He is allegedly held at the Da Feng labour camp, in northern Jiangsu province. Zhu Mei (or Sha Zhumei), aged 74, a former schoolteacher and member of an independent Protestant Church, was reportedly arrested on 3 June 1987 at her home in Shanghai and beaten by police. She was tried in secret on 3 November 1987 and released on parole on 3 April 1992 for medical reasons, following ill-treatment suffered in prison, as a result of which she apparently lost the use of one knee. After two months in hospital, she was reportedly placed under house arrest and her movements restricted. Her political rights are said to have been suspended until 1995 and both she and her family are reportedly kept under close surveillance by the authorities. She had reportedly already been imprisoned for six years during the Cultural Revolution because of her religious activities.