A/HRC/19/58 education activities to extricate them from Falun Gong’s mind control and to allow them to resume a normal life. A small minority of criminals are subjected to punishment as they have engaged in criminal activity and broken the country’s laws. There is no direct causeand-effect relationship between this and whether or not they are practitioners of Falun Gong. China is a State governed by the rule of law. The Public Security Bureau has handled this case in accordance with the law. Coercive measures were taken against Jiang in accordance with the law because he made use of a cult to carry out illegal activities. When the coercive measures were applied all his rights were scrupulously respected. The Chinese Government respectfully requests that the foregoing be reproduced in its entirety in the relevant United Nations documents.‖ 158. In the fourth communication, dated 5 July 2010, the Government replied to an urgent appeal transmitted on 30 April 2010, concerning Mr. Cao Du, a grantee of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations, who was reportedly abducted by the police at the Beijing Capital International Airport before boarding his flight to New York City to attend the ninth session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and later taken to an unknown location. In this communication, the Government reported: ―Receipt is hereby acknowledged of joint urgent appeal No. G/SO 218/2 G/SO 217/1 G/SO 214 (67-17) G/SO 214 (107-9) Indigenous (2001-8) CHN 12/2010 [China] dated 30 April from the Chairman of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, the Chairman 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 and fundamental freedoms of indigenous peoples and the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, of the United Nations Human Rights Council. The Chinese Government has looked carefully into the matter referred to in the communication and wishes to make the following reply: Sodmongol, whose name as it appears in his passport is Cao Du, is an ethnic Mongolian male from Chifeng, Inner Mongolia, born in January 1965, and a teacher at the Ethnology Research Department of the Chaoyang City Teachers College of Technology in Liaoning Province. Because Cao was engaged in counterfeit book production and illegally publishing and selling book collections, he is suspected of economic crimes. On 20 April he was placed in criminal detention by the Chaoyang public security authorities. His case is being heard at the moment. China is a State governed by the rule of law, and the departments concerned have handled this case in accordance with the law. Measures have been taken against Cao in accordance with the law because he committed illegal acts. His every right has been upheld in accordance with the law. The Chinese Government respectfully requests that the foregoing be reproduced in its entirety in the relevant United Nations documents.‖ 159. During the reporting period, the Government transmitted three communications to the Working Group. 160. In the first communication, dated 24 February 2011, the Government provided information concerning one outstanding case which was not considered sufficient to lead to its clarification. Its content is as follows: ―In regard to the Urgent Appeal letter dated 23 March 2010 of the Special Rapporteur on Torture of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UA G/SO 214 (53-24) CHN 6/2010) and the Urgent Appeal letters dated 26 April 2010, 6 August 2010 and 21 December 2010 of the Working Group on Enforced Disappearances of the United Nations Human Rights Council (G/SO 217/1 China), the Chinese Government hereby gives the following reply after a careful investigation into the circumstances of those letters was carried out: I. GAO Zhisheng, male, born on 20 April 1964, was sentenced to a jail term of three years in 2006 for inciting subversion of State power, for which case he was granted a five-year reprieve yet deprived of political rights for one year. After GAO was sentenced to probation, under ―The Criminal Law‖ and ―The Administrative Regulations on the Supervision of Offenders under Control, Political Rights 40