Date Type Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted Reply 22/03/11 CHN 6/2011 JUA China Arbitrary detention; Freedom of expression Alleged residential surveillance of dissident. According to the information received, on 22 February 2011, Mr. Wu Wei, a webmaster and Network Coordinator of the Independent Chinese PEN Centre, was arrested by police authorities at his home in Haizhu, Guangdong. His home was allegedly searched, and computers, books and videos were confiscated. On 1 March, Mr. Wei was reportedly placed under residential surveillance in Fanyu on the charges of “inciting subversion of state power”. Prior to his arrest, Mr. Wei was allegedly engaged in dissident writing and activism, and as a result was often subjected to harassment. 22/03/11 IRN 5/2011 JUA Iran (Islamic Republic of) Arbitrary detention; Freedom of expression; Human rights defenders; Violence against women Alleged detention of human rights defenders. According to the information received, Ms. Fatemeh Masjedi and Ms. Maryam Bidgoli were arrested on 7 May 2009 for peacefully gathering signatures for the “One Million Signatures Campaign”, to support amendments of laws that discriminate against women. They were reportedly found guilty of spreading propaganda against the system in favour of a feminist group and for publication of materials in support of a feminist group opposed to the system, and sentenced to one year’s imprisonment. This sentence was later reduced to six months. On 29 December, they were summoned to report within 3 days to prison officials in Qom to begin serving the prison sentence, but reportedly they remained free after further appeals. On 28 January 2011, Ms. Masjedi was reportedly once again arrested for peacefully collecting signatures, and taken to an unknown place of detention. 22/03/11 KGZ 2/2011 JUA Kyrgyzstan Arbitrary detention; Freedom of religion; Minority issues Alleged arrests of Jehovah’s witnesses. According to information received, Mr. Janibek 23/05/11 Nosirov (aged 22) and Mr. Iskender Kambarov (aged 17) were arrested on 29 January 2011 for possessing extremist material, namely two videos produced by the organization Hizb utTahrir. Reportedly, the videos were planted on them, and the arrests were related to the recent application for registration by Jehovah’s Witnesses in the district of Batken Oblast. Both Mr. Nosirov and Mr. Kambarov were subsequently taken to court, and had been held in a pre-trial detention facility in Pulgon in Kadamja. On 10 January 2011, Ms. Nurjan Bekboyeva and Ms. Gulkaiyre Moldosheva, both Jehovah’s Witnesses, were reportedly stopped on a street in the city of Kara Kul, for preaching on the street. They were reportedly taken to the SNSS headquarters in Kara-Kul where they were interrogated. Reportedly, during the interrogation the SNSS officials insisted that the two women were preaching and that it was unlawful for them to do so without first obtaining registration. A/HRC/18/51 73