A/HRC/19/58 Urgent actions 137. The Working Group transmitted two cases under its urgent action procedure to the Government. The first case concerned Ms. Mao Hengfeng, a well know human rights defender who was allegedly abducted by Shanghai and Anhui police officers on 24 February 2011 from her home in Yangpu District, Shanghai. The second case concerned Mr. Ershidin Israel who, on 30 May 2011, allegedly disappeared after being extradited from Kazakhstan to China. Mr. Israel was the subject of an urgent appeal previously transmitted to the Government. Urgent Appeals 138. The Working Group transmitted seven communications under its urgent appeal procedure. 139. The first communication was transmitted on 2 March 2011, jointly with five other special procedures mechanisms, and concerned an alleged pattern of arrests, detentions, enforced disappearances and intimidations of human rights defenders and lawyers across the country following calls for protests inspired by the so-called ―Jasmine Revolution‖. Reportedly, Messrs. Gu Chuan, Qi Zhiyong, Li Hai, Ran Yunfei, Huang Yanming, Tang Jingling and Ye Du, Yao Lifa, Chen Zhonghe, Xiao Shichang, Zhang Junjie, Tang Jitian, Teng Biao and Jiang Tianyong were allegedly detained by the police between 12 and 20 February 2011. 140. The second communication was transmitted on 11 May 2011, jointly with four other special procedures mechanisms, concerning Mr. Sun Desheng, Ms. Li Tiantian, Ms. Mao Hengeng, Mr. Liu Dejun, Mr. Zhu Yufu, Mr. Zhou Li, Mr. Ai Weiwei, Mr. Wen Tao, Mr. Hu Mingfen, Mr. Zhang Jinsong, Mr. Liu Zhenggang, Mr. Zhang Yongpan, Mr. Zhang Jialong, Mr. Zhang Haibo, Mr. Ceng Renguang, Mr. Lan Ruoyu, Mr. Yuan Xinting, Mr. Ma He (also known as Kucun Jiasha), Mr. Wei Shuishan, Mr. Zhang Halbo, Mr. Li Yu, Mr. Hu Di, and Mr. Liu Zhengqing, who were allegedly arrested by the police between 15 February and 14 April. In this communication it was acknowledged that Messrs. Gu Chuan, Teng Biao, Tang Jitian and Jiang Tianyong, some of the subjects of the urgent appeal sent on 2 March 2011, were released. 141. On 14 July 2011, the Government replied: ―In regard to the Urgent Appeal letter dated May 11, 2011 of the Chair-Rapporteur of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, the Chair-Rapporteur of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and Expression, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, and the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment [UA G/SO 218/2 G/SO 217/1 G/SO 214 (67-17) G/SO 214 (138-9) G/SO 214 (53-24) CHN 13/2011], the Chinese Government hereby gives the following reply after a careful investigation into the circumstances of the letter was carried out: Mr. Zhu Yufu, male, from China Zhejiang Province, Dongyang city. Mr. Zhu was detained according to law on March 5 2011 on charges of subversion of state power by the Zhejiang province police department. The investigative organ approved his arrest on April 11. Mr. Zhu’s case in currently under further investigation. Mr. Yuan Xinting, male, native of Sichuan, China. Mr. Yuan was put under home confinement on charges of subversion of state power by the Guanzhou police department. Mr. Yuan’s case is currently under further investigation. The Chinese public security organ has not undertaken any coercive measures towards any the following individuals: Mr. Li Hai, (male, from Beijing, China), Mr. Qi Zhiyong, (male, from Beijing, China), Mr. Huan Yanming, (male, from Guiyang, Guizhou province, China), Mr. Yao Lifa, (male, from Hubei province, China), Ms. Li Tiantian, (female, Urumqi, Xinjiang province, China) Mr. Liu Dejun, (male, from Xiangfan, Hubei province, China), Mr. Wei Shuishan, (male, from Meikou, Sichuan province, China), Mr. Li Yu, 35