Date Type Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted Reply EGY 19/2013 24/12/2013 Egypt JUA Arbitrary detention; Freedom of expression; Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Human rights defenders; Torture; Alleged acts of intimidation and reprisals in the form of a raid and arrests by security 13/03/2013 forces of the offices and its members of a prominent human rights organization which had been co-operating with the United Nations. According to the information received, on 18 December 2013, more than sixty armed officers of the state security forces raided the offices of the Egyptian Centre for Economic and Social Rights. It is alleged that the officers damaged office equipment and confiscated three laptops and a computer. They then arrested six of its members and volunteers, Messrs’ Mahmoud Bilal, Moustafa Eissa, Sherif Ashour, Hossam Mohamed Nasr, Sayed Mahmoud ElSayed and Mohamed Adel, and took them, handcuffed and blindfolded, to an unknown location. The six men were allegedly forced to stand and beaten until the next morning. All men except Mr. Mohamed Adel were released the next morning. On 22 December 2013, Mr. Adel, and Messrs’ Ahmed Douma and Ahmed Maher, who were arrested on 2 December after a peaceful protest, were sentenced to three years imprisonment under the new law No. 107 on ““Regulating Rights of Public Assemblies, Processions and Peaceful Protests”. TUR 6/2013 24/12/2013 Turkey JUA Health; Torture; Alleged torture and ill-treatment of children in Sakran Juvenile Prison, Aliaga district, 21/02/2014 Izmir, Turkey. According to the information received, children detained in Sakran Juvenile prison have repeatedly been subjected to torture and ill-treatment by prison guards and the prison director, including by being severely beaten, placed in solitary confinement for up to 6 months and subjected to denial of medical care and transfer to hospital. Children were allegedly forced to sign a document declaring that they stayed in solitary confinement for five days. It is alleged that those who have filed complaints with the local human rights organization, were reportedly forced by the prison administration to withdraw their complaints. Children have allegedly reported incidents of sexual exploitation in the prison. No criminal investigation is known to have been initiated into the allegations of torture and ill-treatment. Serious concern is expressed about the mental and physical well-being of the children detained in Sakran Juvenile prison. A/HRC/26/21 31