A/HRC/4/33/Add.1 Page 142 Para 125. Country Date 04/07/06 Type JUA Mandate WGAD; RINT; TOR; Allegations transmitted they are being held in incommunicado detention in China. Yusuf Kadir Tohti had fled from China to Kazakstan in 1996 and was arrested on 8 March 2006 by the Kazakh authorities. The Chinese authorities accused him of “separatism” and asked for his extradition. Abdukadir Sidik had fled the XUAR in 1999 after he publicly protested against the Chinese authorities’ policy on minorities, particularly their enforcement of the family planning policy, which limited the number of children that Uighurs could have. Temirbaev Gabdurafih, a citizen of Uzbekistan living in Kazakhstan as a refugee under the 1951 Refugee Convention, who is reportedly at risk of being returned to Uzbekistan. Mr Gabdurafih fled Uzbekistan in 1999 and has been living in Kazakhstan with his family for seven years. In June 2006, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) recognized that Mr Gabdurafih was at risk of persecution in his home country because of his practice of Islam outside of the state-run mosque system in Uzbekistan. This procedure included a confirmation from the Government of Kazakhstan that no criminal charges had been filed against him. On 24 June 2006, however, security forces arrested Mr Gabdurafih in Almaty, and he is currently in custody. The arrest took place upon request of the Government of Uzbekistan. UNHCR has asked for access to Mr Gabdurafih, but so far it has not been granted, nor has UNHCR been provided with any information on the reasons for the arrest, apart from being told Government Response