A/HRC/33/19 October 2015, Ms. Do submitted a complaint to the United Nations human rights mechanisms. On 29 October 2015, she was summoned to the local police station where police officers intimidated her and attempted to persuade her to withdraw her complaint to the United Nations. It is reported that after she refused, police officers continued to threaten her and her family. At the time of finalization of the present report, no response had been received from the Government. C. Follow-up information on cases included in previous reports 1. China 39. The case of Cao Shunli was included in my previous two reports (see A/HRC/27/38, paras. 17-19, and A/HRC/30/29, annex, para. 1). Ms. Cao had actively campaigned for transparency and greater participation of civil society in the universal periodic review process of China and was, reportedly as a result thereof, arrested, detained and denied medical treatment, resulting in her death on 14 March 2014. In a right of reply exercised during the thirtieth session of the Human Rights Council, the Chinese representative stated that Ms. Cao was “by no means a human rights defender”, but had been placed under investigation in September 2013 due to allegations of creating trouble. She had died of organ failure caused by tuberculosis, even though she had received good medical care and attempts had been made to save her. Furthermore, the case was not an issue of human rights but rather of the rule of law and the judicial sovereignty and independence of China. The organs of State would deal with any person engaged in criminal activities in accordance with the law.8 2. Cyprus 40. In my previous report, reference was made to allegations of reprisals against Doros Polykarpou, Executive Director of Action for Support, Equality and Antiracism, for having submitted an alternative report on the situation of detained undocumented migrants to the Committee on Torture prior to the consideration of the fourth period report of Cyprus (see A/HRC/30/29, para. 18). On 22 September 2015, during the general debate on agenda item 5 during the thirtieth session of the Human Rights Council, the representative of Cyprus expressed the State’s commitment to preventing reprisals and, while referring to its response of 5 August 2014, stressed that the case did not concern an act of reprisal against an activist but “a lawful, proportionate consequence stipulated equally for any citizen who has failed over a given period of time to comply with his or her statutory responsibilities regarding outstanding fines, as imposed by a warrant issued by the Court”. The representative expressed the hope that relevant mandate holders would agree that the work of human rights defenders, with the greatest respect, “cannot be expected under any circumstance to override the fundamental democratic axiom of equality before the law”. 3. Eritrea 41. My previous report made mention of the risk of reprisals against anyone cooperating with the commission of inquiry on human rights in Eritrea as one of the main challenges the commission had faced in the execution of its mandate (see A/HRC/30/29, para. 19). In its report on its second term, the commission stated that the protection of victims and witnesses remained a central concern, adding that almost everyone the commissioners had 8 http://webtv.un.org/meetings-events/human-rights-council/regular-sessions/30th-session/watch/ clustered-id-wg-on-arbitrary-detention-sr-on-contemporary-forms-of-slavery-3rd-meeting-30thregular-session-of-human-rights-council/4484127097001. 13