A/HRC/7/3/Add.1 page 55 Para Country Date Type Mandate Allegations transmitted Government response March, Lin Zhiyong’s parents and younger brother came to labour re-education facility No. 3 in Guangzhou city to visit him and, on the afternoon of that same day, went to Chaitou labour reeducation facility to visit Liang Wenjian. The allegation in the communication that we have received that “their families have not been notified of their orders of detention and have not been allowed to visit them”, and that they are being held in incommunicado detention and subjected to illtreatment, are unfounded. Liang Wenjian underwent a period of labour re-education from December 1999 to April 2001 in the Chaitou labour re-education facility. During that period, the labour re education authorities dealt with her, in accordance with the law, in a civilized manner and there were no instances of her being required to perform overtime work or excessive physical labour, or being subjected to corporal punishment. Furthermore, as she demonstrated that she had responded well to re-education, on 25 April 2001 the labour re-education facility arranged for her to complete her term outside the facility. The legal basis for the labour re-education order served on the eight persons named above is provided by the Chinese State Council directive on labour reeducation and the Council’s proposed modalities for labour re-education approved by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress. The eight persons in question were ordered, in accordance with the law, to serve terms of labour re education for disrupting social order and their “arrests and detention” are not, as alleged in the