Date Type Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted Reply AUS 4/2015 15/04/2015 Australia JAL Cultural Rights; Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Indigenous peoples; Allegations concerning the Federal Government’s discontinuing of funding for basic 03/06/2015 services in remote aboriginal communities, which may affect more than 100 such communities in the State of Western Australia. According to the information received, the measure is expected to take place at the end of July 2015 when federal funding will end, affecting 12,113 people living in the 275 remote communities in the State of Western Australia. Concerns are raised regarding the impact that such discontinuation may have on the human rights of indigenous communities, including their cultural rights, whether indigenous communities have been consulted with and the alternatives that the communities will have to choose from. BHR 2/2015 15/04/2015 Bahrain JUA Arbitrary detention; Freedom of expression; Human rights defenders; Torture; 18/05/2015 Allegations of arrest and detention of a human rights defender following his public denouncement of torture and ill-treatment in Jaw Prison in Bahrain. According to the information received, on 10 March 2015, prisoners at Jaw Prison were attacked by Bahraini security forces using rubber bullets, tear gas, and shotgun pellets, which led to the injuries of at least 500 prisoners. Furthermore, 10 prisoners were transferred to solitary confinement. On 2 April 2015, Mr. Nabeel Rajab was arrested in connection with tweets that he had made regarding the torture and ill treatment of prisoners at Jaw Prison in relation to the events of 10 March 2015. The following day, government security forces raided his house and confiscated all of the electronic equipment on the premises. It was later announced that Mr. Rajab would be charged with insulting a statutory body and spreading rumours during wartime. If convicted, Mr. Rajab may face up to ten years in prison. Mr. Rajab was the subject of a previous communication sent on 14 October 2014, see A/HRC/28/85, case no. BHR 13/2014. A/HRC/30/27 27