Date Type Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted Reply SYR 3/2014 31/01/2014 Syrian Arab JUA Republic Adequate housing; Food; Health; Torture; Water and Sanitation; Alleged denial of access to food, safe drinking water, adequate shelter and medical supplies, facilities and services as a method of war in violation of international human rights law. According to the information received, Government and pro-government armed forces have laid siege to several towns and villages that had previously faced massive levels of destruction of homes and infrastructures, and are blocking access of residents to supplies of food, water, and medicines. Moreover, Government and progovernment forces have reportedly deliberately attacked food and water supplies as well as medical units and personnel in opposition-held areas. Reportedly, antigovernment armed groups have also in some cases blocked access to food and medical supplies to residents under siege and attacked medical units. TJK 1/2014 31/01/2014 Tajikistan JAL Health; Independence of judges and lawyers; Torture; 29/04/2014 Alleged death in custody of a member of the opposing Islamic Renaissance Party. According to the information received, on 30 October 2013, Mr. Umed Tojiev, a member of the opposition, Islamic Renaissance Party, was arrested at a market in Sughd province, Tajikistan. Reportedly, Mr. Tojiev was not allowed to see a defence lawyer until 13 November 2013. He was allegedly subjected to torture and other forms of ill-treatment while in detention with the purpose of extracting a confession about his alleged involvement in terrorism. It is alleged that, on an unknown date, Mr. Tojiev jumped out of the third floor window of the police station in Sughd province, and was subsequently hospitalized with broken legs for four days. On 5 November 2013, he was placed in pre-trial detention. On 19 January 2014, Mr. Tojiev died at the Central Hospital of Main Directorate of Implementation of Criminal Punishment (MDICP). According to his lawyer, the official reason given for his death was “thrombotic embolism”. A/HRC/26/21 51