A/HRC/7/3/Add.1 page 56 Para 40. Country Date 10/05/07 Type JAL Mandate HOUS; HRD; IJL; TOR Allegations transmitted Ms. Mao Hengfeng (subject of previously transmitted communications, e.g. A/HRC/4/33/Add.1, para. 32). Prior to her trial on 16 April 2007, she was detained in a small cell in which the floor was covered with excrement with the smell preventing her from sleeping. Reports also claim that prison guards had covered the only window in the cell. Ms Hengfeng’s current conditions of detention are unknown. Government response communication which we have received, “solely connected with their legitimate exercise of the right to freedom of religion or belief”.According to the relevant regulations, if persons undergoing labour re-education do not accept the labour reeducation order served on them, they may, within a period of 60 days of the date of receipt of the written order, apply to the Guangzhou city people’s government or to the Guangdong provincial labour re-education management committee for administrative review of the order, or, within a period of three months of the date of receipt of the written order, lodge an administrative appeal directly with the people’s court. As has been ascertained, Wu Jiangyan and Liang Wenjian separately submitted applications for administrative review, on 3 April and 6 April respectively. The labour re-education authorities duly referred their applications for administrative review to the relevant department, on 4 April and 7 April respectively. By letter dated 15/08/07, the Government informed that on 16 April 2007 she was sentenced by the Yangpu district people’s court to two years and six months’ fixed-term imprisonment for the offence of causing malicious damage to property, to run from 30 May 2006 to 29 November 2008. She is currently serving her sentence in the Shanghai women’s prison. Upon being admitted to prison, Mao underwent a physical examination which showed that, apart from an inclination to high blood pressure, all other indications were within the normal range. Mao is currently sharing