A/HRC/4/33/Add.1 Page 58 Para 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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