Date Type 22/04/2016 JUA 22/04/2016 JAL Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted Reply CHN 3/2016 Arbitrary China (People's detention; Republic of) Freedom of expression; Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Health; Human rights defenders; Alleged arbitrary arrest and detention of two women human rights defenders, and 22/07/2016 lack of access to adequate healthcare. According to the information received, on 26 October 2015, Ms. Zhang Shuzhi, who has called for the release of various imprisoned Chinese human rights defenders, was arrested in Beijing and charged with “picking quarrels and provoking troubles”. On 28 January 2016, she was sentenced to four years imprisonment. Ms. Shuzhi is terminally ill with cancer and allegedly only has access to basic medication in detention. Ms. Liu Jie has persistently been targeted by Xunke Farm Reclamation Bureau for several years, due to her petitioning for legal and political reform of land rights in the Heilongjiang Province. On 27 February 2016, Ms Liu Jie and her husband were seized by officials from the Xunke Farm Reclamation Bureau and the Bei’an Land Reclamation Bureau in Heilongjiang Province, as they prepared to travel to Beijing for Ms. Jie to seek treatment at the Peking University Cancer Hospital, and to attend meetings. On 18 March 2016, Ms. Jie was handed a ten day administrative sentence on charges of “false accusation”. Allegedly, she did not have access to appropriate medical care during the course of her detention. Ms. Jie was the subject of three previous communications dated 27 August 2008, see A/HRC/10/12/Add.1, para. 624; 28 December 2007, see A/HRC/10/12/Add.1, para. 451; and, 25 October 2007, see A/HRC/7/28/Add.1, para. 392. IDN 3/2016 Indonesia Alleged preventable deaths of 51 children and three adults as a result of a Pertussis epidemic in Papua Province, Indonesia. According to the information received, between November 2015 and 5 January 2016, 51 children and three adults died of Pertussis in the Nduga Regency, a remote area in the highlands of Papua Province that is mainly inhabited by indigenous Papuans. The spread of the epidemic was reportedly facilitated by food and clean water shortages, chronic malnutrition and poor availability of and lack of access to adequate medical services. Information received indicated that preventive immunizations had not been provided to the indigenous Papuans. Both national and local government institutions reportedly failed to adequately prevent, treat and control the Pertussis epidemic. It is therefore alleged that the 54 deaths were preventable and the result of government neglect. Food; Health; Indigenous peoples; A/HRC/33/32 61