Date Type 23/12/2015 JAL 23/12/2015 JUA Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted Reply CHN 13/2015 Freedom of China (People's expression; Republic of) Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Human rights defenders; 10/02/2016 Alleged sentencing of a human rights defender. According to the information received, on 27 November 2015, Mr. Yang Maodong, also known by his pen name Guo Feixiong, a human rights defender and pro-democracy activist, was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment by the Tianhe District People’s Court in Guangzhou on charges of “gathering crowds to disturb social order” and “picking quarrels and provoking trouble”. Serious concern is expressed that the reported reason for his arrest, detention and sentencing might be related to his legitimate work as a human rights defender and to the exercise of his right to freedom of expression. Mr. Maodong was the subject of six previous communications sent on 6 March 2006, case no. CHN 8/2006; 19 October 2006, A/case no. CHN 39/2006; 1 December 2006, case no. CHN 40/2006, see HRC/4/37/Add.1; 30 November 2007, see A/HRC/7/28/Add.1 case no. CHN 42/2007; 22 August 2013, see A/HCR/25/74, case no. CHN 9/2013; and 7 August 2015, see A/HRC/31/79, case no. CHN 8/2015. ISR 10/2015 Israel Alleged arbitrary arrest and detention of a human rights defender and two of his colleagues. According to the information received, on 7 September 2015, Israeli soldiers arrested Mr. Judeh Deeb Ibrahim Jamal at his apartment in East Jerusalem, Occupied Palestinian Territory, without an arrest warrant. On the same day, two of his colleagues, Ms. Najwan Odeh and Mr. Fadi Mansra, were also arrested. Mr. Jamal, who had been working as the Acting Director of Qatar Charity in its Ramallah office since March 2011, was held in solitary confinement between 7 September and 10 October 2015. During this period of time, he was also deprived of access to a doctor or medicine as well as denied the right to consult a lawyer and to contact his family. The lawyer of Mr. Jamal had no access to the case file and evidence until 12 October 2015 when the Israeli military prosecutor formally issued a list of charges against Mr. Jamal. Since his arrest, Mr. Jamal has been held in military detention and his family has not been allowed to visit him to date. Arbitrary detention; Human rights defenders; Independence of judges and lawyers; OPT; Torture; A/HRC/32/53 37