A/HRC/16/53/Add.1 • On 6 May 2009, he was admitted to the prison infirmary for intermittent pain in the left thorax. He was diagnosed with an obsolescent myocardial infarction and treated with oral medications. • On 16 September 2009, he was admitted to the prison infirmary for recurrent chest constriction and shortness of breath; the diagnosis was hypertension and he was treated with oral medication. 43. After his incarceration, Li has been visited by family members 30 times in the period from 29 October 2004 to date. From 2006 to the present, there have been six or seven visits per year. Currently, Li Feng’s speech and thought processes are clear, he walks normally, and his health condition has stabilized. According to the Government, the assertions that Li Feng has been tortured and denied visits from family members are contrary to the facts. 44. Furthermore, the Government indicated that Mr. Yu Ming, aged 37, is of Han nationality, has senior middle-school educational level and was a worker in the Yinfu Company of Shenhe District, Shenyang. On 31 March 2006, Yu was approved for a twoyear, six-month term of re-education through labour by the Beijing Municipal Re-education Through Labour Administrative Committee. On 26 June 2006, Yu applied to the Beijing Municipal People’s Government for an administrative review of that decision; the Beijing Municipal People’s Government accepted the case for investigation, and upheld the original decision with regard to the applicant’s re-education through labour. Because his domicile of origin was Hebei Province, Yu was transferred into the re-education through labour camp at Masanjia in Hebei Province on 21 May 2007. Yu had engaged in a hunger strike for a time at the Tuanhe labour camp in Beijing, and continued to refuse to eat after being transferred to the Masanjia labour camp. 45. On 28 May 2007, he was sent to the hospital at the re-education through labour centre in Liaoning Province for treatment; after a full physical examination, he was diagnosed with malnutrition, level-III dehydration and acute coronary syndrome. The hospital provided him with enhanced nutrition, fluid replacement and treatment of his symptoms. In 2008, having fully recovered and been released from the hospital, Yu was returned to the Masanjia camp after a hospital stay of a year and three months. 46. According to the Government, on numerous occasions while in the hospital, Yu clandestinely contacted W. Y. (a drug addict who had also been sentenced to re-education through labour and who had also been treated in the hospital) and others, and, through a recently admitted fellow-cultist, provided W. Y. with three saw blades after W. Y. had been released from the hospital. On 11 August 2008, W. Y. and Z. D. (sentenced to re-education through labour for employing cults, secret societies and superstitious activities to endanger society) escaped after sawing through the steel bars on a labour camp dormitory window. Yu also contacted his wife, who provided W. Y. and Z. D. with a hiding-place. In accordance with the provisions of article 24, paragraph 1 (1) (the re-education through labour terms of persons who escape or organize, incite or assist others to escape are to be extended by three months or more) and paragraph 2 (5) (the re-education through labour sentences of persons who conceal cash, weapons, ropes and other prohibited articles, and who refuse to surrender them, are to be extended by two to three months) of the Detailed Rules for Implementation of the Three Types of Administrative Model and of the Review and Reward System for Persons Undergoing Re-education Through Labour in Liaoning Province, their re-education through labour terms were extended by one year. Yu was released from re-education through labour on 2 September 2009. 47. The Government furthermore indicated the following: • With regard to the allegation that Yu was sent to a brainwashing centre at Luotaishanzhuang in Fushun City, investigation indicates that apart from a period of treatment in the Shenyang Masanjia labour camp infirmary for the adverse health 11