A/HRC/4/33/Add.1 Page 53 Para 34. Country Date 07/04/06 Type JUA Mandate WGAD; IJL; TOR; HRD Allegations transmitted there for questioning for 24 hours. The next morning, Mao was able to telephone her husband, Wu Xuewei. She told him that she was being taken away from the police station by Yangpu District Residents’ Committee officials but that she did not know where. He then heard Mao Hengfeng scream and the line went dead. Wu Xuewei immediately telephoned the District Residents’ Committee to find out where his wife was being taken, but they first denied that they were holding her. After repeated calls, the committee secretary confirmed that Mao Hengfeng was "in their hands" and that they wanted to "educate her" because her protests about human rights violations were creating "social instability". They have refused to indicate where she is detained and her family has not had access to her. With respect to her detention as alleged in the 5 January 2006 letter, further information received indicates that she was detained by seven Residents’ Committee officials in a Shanghai hotel from 3-6 January. The officials reportedly beat her several times, grabbed her breasts and prevented her from sleeping during this period. Chen Guancheng (the subject of previously transmitted communications, E/CN.4/2006/6/Add.1, para. 24). He was interviewed on 28 November 2005, during the visit of the Special Rapporteur on torture (E/CN.4/2006/6/Add.6, page 58). On 11 March 2006, Chen Guangcheng’s neighbour and cousin, Mr Chen Guangyu, was beaten by four hooded Government Response in fact. By letter dated 14/06/06, the Government reported that on 11 March 2006, Chen Guangcheng and his family members Chen Guangjun, Chen Guangyu and others, assembled a crowd of villagers and obstructed traffic, causing a major traffic jam on national highway 205. On 12 March, Chen Guangjun and Chen Guangyu were taken into criminal

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