41.   The wife of Shanghai dissident Zhang Xianliang appealed Wednesday to the authorities to let her husband leave a re-education labour camp to seek medical treatment.

42.   Wang had been on the run since last Tuesday when fellow dissident Liu Xiaobo was sentenced to a term in a labour camp.

43.   Wang had been on the run since last Tuesday when fellow dissident Liu Xiaobo was sentenced to three years in a labour camp.

44.   Wang was smuggled into Hong Kong after his fellow dissident, Liu Xiaobo, was arrested and sentenced to three years in a labour camp.

45.   Under Chinese law police authorities can sentence individuals to between six months and three years re-education in labour camp without a formal trial.

46.   Wang Xizhe fled after Liu Xiaobo, the co-author of an open letter calling for self-determination in Tibet, was sentenced to three years in a labour camp.

47.   Yang, a co-founder of the Shanghai-based Chinese Human Rights Association, was released from a labour camp earlier this month, following a lengthy illness.

48.   Yang and Li were reported to be serving three-year terms at a labour camp in Hubei, while the whereabouts of Zhang were unknown, Amnesty said.

49.   Yang was released from a labour camp earlier this month, following a lengthy bout of illness, brought on by high blood pressure and a serious complaint.

50.   It was, he added, not a gravy train but a voluntary labour camp.