A/HRC/4/33/Add.1
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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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