A/HRC/7/3/Add.1 page 62 Para Country Date Type Mandate Allegations transmitted Zheng Dajing, a petitioner and human rights defender. He was arrested and detained on 9 September 2007 by officials of the public security bureau of Shiyan city, Yunxi county, Hubei province, on criminal charges of “petitioning leading to disturbance of social order.” Mr. Zheng was believed to be held at the Yunxi Detention Centre, however, on 18 September 2007 it appeared that he is being detained at Yancao Station in Hongtai Yuansigou village, where he has been beaten and subjected to other forms of ill-treatment. Yancao Station is an unofficial detention facility established by local authorities for the purpose of detaining petitioners. Local government authorities allege that Yancao Station is in fact merely a “class for petitioners who have adopted unusual means to petition” and was set up following directives of the central government. Before Mr. Zheng was arrested he had been forcibly returned from Beijing to his hometown on 7 September 2007 by unidentified officials believed to be from Hubei province. In Beijing he had met with other petitioners and received information about the destruction of a village where other petitioners were living. C. K., T. K., D. T., and G., all aged 15, and belonging to nomad families. On 7 September 2007, they were arrested in Amchok Bora village, Xiahe county, Gansu province, on suspicion of writing political statements on the walls of a local police station. They are detained at Xiahe county Detention Centre. They were arrested together with about 36 other students, who have since 47. 09/10/07 JUA HOUS; WGAD; FRDX; HRD; TOR 48. 24/10/07 JUA TOR; WGAD Government response