Date Type Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted MMR 3/2015 07/04/2015 Myanmar JUA Arbitrary detention; Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Human rights defenders; Myanmar; Alleged arbitrary arrest, detention and sentencing of two peaceful protestors against Parliament’s decision to approve an increase in electricity prices and two bystanders. According to the information received, on 27 March 2014, Mr. Thein Aung Myint and Mr. Saw Hla Aung, members of the Movement for Democracy Current Force, led a peaceful protest outside the Diamond Plaza in Mandalay against Parliament’s decision to approve an increase in electricity prices. Mr. Myint had applied for a permit to hold the protest but it had been refused. Shortly after the protest started, the police arrested Mr. Thein Aung Myint and Mr. Saw Hla Aung, as well as Mr. Kyaw Myo Htun, a bystander. The police also arrested Ms. Khet Khet Tin, Mr. Myint’s wife. The four individuals were charged under article 18 of the Law on the Right to Peaceful Assembly and Peaceful Procession. On 23 March 2015, Chanayethazan Township Court found all four individuals guilty of conducting a peaceful protest without prior consent from the authorities and sentenced them to six months imprisonment. GMB 1/2015 09/04/2015 Gambia JAL Arbitrary detention; Disappearances; Health; Summary executions; Torture; Alleged death of three men involved in an attempted coup d’état in the Gambia and alleged arrests, abductions and illegal detentions following that event. According to the information received, three men reportedly involved in the organization of the 30 December 2014 attempted coup d’état in the Gambia were killed during the Government’s attempt to resist the coup. Photographs of the deceased raise questions about the circumstances that led to their deaths. Following the coup, at least thirty persons, including family members of alleged plotters and a child, were arrested. Their whereabouts have not been confirmed officially but reports indicate that they are being held in incommunicado detention in unofficial places of detention, and that several of them have been subject to acts of torture. Reportedly, around ten individuals have been released. Reply A/HRC/30/27 23