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Country
Date
Type
Mandate
37.
29/06/06
JUA
WGAD;
TOR;
38.
14/07/06
JUA
FRDX;
HRD; IJL;
TOR;
Allegations transmitted
Government Response
whereabouts remain unknown. On the same day,
in a separate incident, Ms Ma Yalian, a housing
rights petitioner who was the subject of three
previously transmitted communications, was
arrested at the home of a friend on 15 February.
She was held at Fengqi Hotel in Pudong New
District under the watch of a dozen police officers.
She was released on 6 May, but is reportedly still
under house arrest.
Yusuf Kadir Tohti and Abdukadir Sidik,
originally from Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous
Region (XUAR). After having being forcibly
returned from Almaty to Urumqi by Kazakh
authorities on 10 May 2006, they are being held in
incommunicado detention.
Mr Chen Guangcheng, a lawyer and human
rights defender in Linyi, Shandong Province in
China and Mr Guo Qizhen, a volunteer in the
Tianwang Disappeared Persons Service Center in
Cangzhou City, Hebei Province. The Tianwang
Disappeared Persons Service Center assists
relatives of missing persons to publicise their
stories on the internet in order to find their
relatives. Mr Chen Guangcheng was already the
subject of a previously transmitted communication
(see above). On 12 May 2006, Mr Guo Qizhen
was placed under house arrest by local security
forces, while he was participating in a hunger
strike to protest against alleged human rights
violations committed by the Chinese authorities.
On 6 June 2006, Mr Guo Qizhen was reportedly
charged with “inciting subversion of state power”
and is currently being held in the No. 2 Detention
By letter dated 3/10/06, the Government
reported that on 12 May 2006, Guo Qizhen
was taken into police custody, in accordance
with the law, for breach of the provisions of
articles 105, paragraph 2, and 106 of the
Criminal Code and on suspicion of having
committed the offence of fomenting subversion
of the political power of the State. On 6 June
his remand in detention was approved by the
procuratorial authorities and his case is
currently under consideration.Through his
conduct, Guo is suspected of having
committed the offence of fomenting subversion
of the political power of the State. The
Government further reported that on 10 June
2006, the public security authorities, acting in
accordance with the law, took Chen
Guangcheng into police custody and launched
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