Date Type Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted AZE 2/2015 29/05/2015 Azerbaijan JAL Freedom of expression; Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Health; Human rights defenders; Independence of judges and lawyers; Torture; Alleged pre-trial detention, charges and sentencing of human rights defenders as a result of their legitimate human rights work. According to the information received, on 16 April 2015, Nasimi District Court sentenced Mr. Rasul Jafarov, coordinator of Art of Democracy, an artistic campaign promoting human rights and democracy in Azerbaijan, to six and a half years in prison on charges of illegal business. On 22 April 2015, the same Court sentenced Mr. Intigam Aliyev, a human rights lawyer and head of the Legal Education Society, to seven years and six months in prison and a three-year ban from certain positions and activities. Reports indicate that Mr. Aliyev has been denied access to medical treatment while in detention. On 6 March 2015 and again on 14 May 2015, the same Court extended journalist Ms. Khadija Ismail’s pretrial detention. On 19 August 2014, new charges were brought against Mr. Emin Huseynov, chairman of the Institute for Reporters’ Freedom and Safety, who had been subject of a previous communication sent on 24 June 2008, see A/HRC/10/12/Add.1, case no. AZE 1/2008. Mr. Aliyev was the subject of two previous communications, dated 1 February 2013, see A/HRC/23/51, case no. AZE 2/2013 and 15 August 2014, see A/HRC/28/85, case no. AZE 5/2014. Ms. Ismail was the subject of a previous communication dated 1 February 2013, A/HRC/23/51, case no. AZE 2/2013. Mr. Jafarov was the subject of a previous communication dated 12 August 2014, A/HRC/28/85, case no. AZE 4/2014. CHN 4/2015 29/05/2015 China (People's JAL Republic of) Freedom of expression; Human rights defenders; Independence of judges and lawyers; Torture; Alleged arbitrary detention and conviction of a former journalist. According to the information received, on 24 April 2014, Ms. Gao Yu, aged 70 and a prominent former journalist, went missing and no information concerning her fate or whereabouts was released until 8 May 2014 when officials confirmed that she had been detained by Beijing Police for “illegally obtaining” a secret document and “leaking State secrets abroad” to editors of a foreign website in August 2013. On 8 May 2014, she allegedly confessed to the charges on State television after the police had threatened to arrest her son. On 17 April 2015, she was convicted and sentenced to seven years in prison by the Beijing Third Intermediate People’s Court. Ms. Gao Yu was the subject of a previous communication sent to on 7 December 2010, see A/HRC/18/51, case no. CHN 29/2010. Reply A/HRC/30/27 63