Date Type Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted IND 2/2014 17/01/2014 India UA Slavery; Allegations concerning cases of bonded labour in Odisha, India. According to the information received, the hands of Mr. Nilambar Dhangada Majhi and Mr. Jialu Nial, two labourers from the Kalahandi district, were reportedly cut off by a labour contractor after they tried to escape. The aforementioned individuals were reportedly part of a group of 12 labourers, who were brought from their villages beginning of December 2013 to work in a brick kiln in Andhra Pradesh. It is reported that the contractor forcibly tried to take the labourers to another State (to Raipur in Chhatishgarh). All of the labourers reportedly got off the train at Gondia and Nagpur and managed to escape, with the exception of Mr. Nilambar and Mr. Jialu who were caught at Raipur on 9 December 2013. It is reported that they were brought back to Kalahandi on 15 December 2013 and the contractor demanded them to repay the advance payment of all the labourers. When they pleaded their inability to do so, their right hands were allegedly cut off and they were dumped on the road. IRQ 1/2014 17/01/2014 Iraq JUA Arbitrary detention; Independence of judges and lawyers; Summary executions; Terrorism; Torture; Alleged risk of imminent executions in contravention of international human rights law . According to the information received, Messrs’ Bara’ Ibrahim Muhammad and Taysir Jassim Muhammad were sentenced to death on 8 August 2010 by the First Branch of the Criminal Court in the province of Anbar, Iraq. The aforementioned individuals were reportedly part of a group of 11 persons who were convicted for alleged involvement in the explosions on 7 January 2010 in the city of Hit, which resulted in the death of eight people. The 11 individuals were reportedly held incommunicado and subjected to interrogations under torture. It is further reported that these two individuals retracted their confessions when several defendants reported the acts of torture against them during the proceedings. Allegedly, the Court admitted however the pre-trial confessions as evidence against the said defendants and the death sentences were reportedly upheld by the Court of Cassation in 2011. Messrs’ Bara’ Ibrahim Muhammad and Taysir Jassim Muhammad are currently reported to be at risk of imminent execution while the other nine individuals were executed on 22 September 2013 in Baghdad. Reply A/HRC/26/21 43