E/CN.4/2001/0063 page 37 coordination with the UNHCR office in Sana’a. This decision was put into effect and the said person was expelled to Djibouti on Friday, 25 August, as an alternative to the continuation of the trial proceedings.” Late replies 149. Replies from States to communications sent in the context of the report submitted to the Commission on Human Rights at its fifty-sixth session (A/CN.4/2000/65) are contained in the report submitted to the General Assembly at its fifty-fifth session of the (A/55/280, paras. 55-75; Azerbaijan, Brunei Darussalam, China, Russian Federation, India, Indonesia, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Ukraine and Viet Nam). Following this session, the Special Rapporteur received the following replies from China and the Sudan. China 150. Concerning the allegations that Christians have been arrested (see E/CN.4/2000/65, para. 27), China replied: “Information concerning the illegal gathering in Tanghe County on 23 August 1999 and the people involved. On 23 August 1999, Zhang Rongliang, Feng Jianguo, Wang Xincai and some other key members of cult organizations, flaunting the banner of ‘unification of churches’, called together some people to set up a new cult organization in Tanghe county, Henan Province, and disturbed the public order there. The local public security department, acting on the local people’s reports, banned their illegal activities according to law. The information concerning the individuals mentioned in the letter is as follows: Zhang Rongliang, male, age 47, is from Fangcheng County, Henan Province. Zhang joined the cult organization Full-scope Church in 1984. In February 1994 he established an illegal organization, with which he fabricated rumours to mislead people and seriously disturbed the public order by being vigorously engaged in ‘treatment of diseases through banishment of evil spirits’. Feng Jianguo, male, age 73, is from Tanghe County, Henan Province. A former key member of the cult organization Full-scope Church, he was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment in 1956 for the crime of rape. In 1994, Feng established the Gospel Group of China. He told his followers to heighten their vigilance and be prepared for war and donate whatever they have. He fabricated rumours to mislead people and seriously disturbed the public order by being vigorously engaged in ‘treatment of diseases through banishment of evil spirits’. In view of the fact that Zhang and Feng were engaged in cult organization activities for many years, persisted in such acts in Tanghe even after the government ban and disturbed the public order, the local public security department, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Criminal Law of the People’s Republic of China as well as the Criminal Procedure Law of the People’s Republic of China, subjected Zhang and