Date Type Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted Reply SOM 6/2013 06/12/2013 Somalia JAL Freedom of expression; Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Human rights defenders; Somalia; Summary executions; Alleged killing of a human rights monitor by the militant group Al-Shabaab, in Somalia. According to the information received, on 21 July 2013, Mr. Adan Salah Abdalla, a human rights monitor who worked for the local human rights organisation Iniskoy for Peace and Development Organization (IPDO), was taken by armed members of the militant group Al-Shabaab and accused of monitoring their activities. It is reported that the elders of the clan and family of Mr. Abdalla were denied access to him by Al-Shabaab. On 19 November 2013, the family of Mr. Abdalla was reportedly informed by Al-Shabaab that he had died in their custody and that they should collect his body. On 21 November 2013, the family was informed by AlShabaab that they had found evidence on Mr. Abdalla’s seized computer, which they believed served as proof of their accusations. Grave concern is expressed that the killing of Mr. Abdalla may have been directly related to his peaceful and legitimate human rights activities, as well as to the security of other human rights defenders in Somalia. LAO 2/2013 09/12/2013 République JUA Démocratique Populaire Lao Freedom of expression; Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Human rights defenders; Allegations of ongoing enforced disappearance of a prominent human rights defender. 30/12/2013 According to the information received, Mr. Sombath Somphone, a human rights defender who was working on issues of land grabbing in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic and assisting victims to speak out about their experiences, was reportedly confirmed by different sources to have been in the hands of the police and the military after he disappeared on 15 December 2012. It is reported that a couple of days after his disappearance, Mr. Somphone was allegedly seen inside a police compound with his jeep parked inside the premises. Two days later, he was reportedly taken to a military camp outside Vientiane. A week later, it was reported that he had been moved one more time to an unknown location. Furthermore, when Ms. Shui Meng Ng, Mr. Somphone’s wife, asked the police whether she could put up posters on walls in Vientiane requesting the public to contact the family in case they had any knowledge of his whereabouts, the police said that it was against the law, whereas miscellaneous posters are reportedly allowed to be put up throughout the capital. Mr. Somphone was the subject of an earlier communication sent on 20 December 2012, see A/HRC/23/51, case no. LAO 2/2012. A/HRC/26/21 15