E/CN.4/1995/91/Add.1 page 15 Father Francis Yijun Wang, aged 75, Vicar-General of the diocese of Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, was allegedly released on 21 May 1992 but it is said that he is confined to his village. Although he is allowed to celebrate mass, it is reported that he cannot meet foreigners. It is said that he was sentenced to three terms of imprisonment, from 1957 to 1962, from 1981 to 1990, then released, but arrested almost immediately once again, and allegedly sentenced on 5 February 1990 to three years of re-education through labour. His most recent sentence is said to be due to the fact that he had refused to repent of having maintained contacts with the unrecognized Catholic Church of Wenzhou and had urged Christians to oppose the religious policy of the authorities. Father Wang has allegedly spent a total of over 15 years in prison. Father Joseph Dechen Jin, aged 72, Vicar-General of the diocese of Nanyang, Henan province, was allegedly arrested in December 1981 and sentenced on 27 July 1982 to 15 years’ imprisonment and 5 years’ deprivation of his political rights. It is also alleged that he was released on parole in May 1992 when his state of health was precarious and that he is subject to restricted residence in his village of Jinjiajiang, near Nanyang. He was allegedly detained in the third provincial prison of Yuxian, near Zhengzhou, at Henan, and accused of opposing abortion and birth control. Father Zhemin Su, aged 60, accused of having ’organized and participated in illegal activities’, was allegedly released on parole at Baoding, Hebei province, where he lives although he does not enjoy freedom of movement. Arrested on 17 December 1989 when he was appointed Vicar-General of the diocese of Baoding, he was reportedly sentenced to three years of re-education through work on 21 May 1990 for having participated in the Clandestine Bishops’ Conference in 1989. Father Su has allegedly spent two periods in prison, from 1959 to 1975 and from 1982 to 1992. It is said that members of his family have been unable to visit him since his release. Father Anthony Zhang Guangyi, was allegedly arrested on 11 December 1989 at the end of a religious meeting because of his loyalty to the Vatican and then imprisoned. It is reported that he was released in June 1990 owing to the precarious state of his health but remained subject to restricted residence and freedom of movement. Father Binzhang Huo, aged 76, Vicar-General of Baoding, Hebei province, was allegedly arrested in 1983 together with his superior, Bishop Fan Xueyan, and sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment for ordaining priests in secret and maintaining contacts abroad. He was a Catholic who was loyal to the Vatican. It is uncertain whether Father Huo is still alive. If so, it is possible that he is being held in the prison of Shijzhuang, Hebei province, or subject to house arrest. Father Vincent Hongsheng Zhu, aged 78, a Jesuit priest who is allegedly subject to restricted residence, probably in Shanghai; his state of health is precarious after having twice been imprisoned, namely, from 1960 to 1978 and from 1981 to 1988, for his loyalty to the Vatican, his contacts abroad and his studies in France, Ireland and the United States.