Case No Country Mandate(s) USA 13/2014 Summary 04/08/2014 United States of executions; JAL America Torture; IRN 16/2014 06/08/2014 Iran (Islamic JUA Republic of) Summary of the allegation transmitted Reply Alleged use of compounded and untested drugs for lethal injections, causing pain and suffering to the condemned, amounting to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment under international human rights law. According to the information received, Mr. Clayton Lockett, a death row prisoner, was executed on 29 April 2014 by lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. On 1 May 2014, following reports and eyewitness accounts that Mr. Lockett was subjected to severe pain and suffering during the execution, the State’s Department of Corrections released a timeline of the execution. Witnesses, including journalists, reported that after he was declared unconscious and the second and third drugs were administered, Mr. Lockett attempted to rise from the table and exhaled loudly. He was subsequently observed gasping, twitching, convulsing, and struggling to speak, before officials drew a curtain and, as corroborated by the timeline, lowered the shades across the windows so as to prevent witnesses from being able to see inside the execution chamber. It is reported that Mr. Lockett was pronounced dead of a heart attack more than 43 minutes after the execution began. 18/12/2014 Arbitrary Alleged arbitrary detention, ill-treatment, violation of fair trial and due process detention; guarantees and capital sentence for an offense that does not meet the threshold of the 22/01/2015 Freedom of most serious crimes. According to the information received, on 20 July 2014, Mr. expression; Iran; Arzhang Davoodi learned that he was sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Court Summary of Karaj on the charge of “enmity against God” (moharebeh), reportedly based on his executions; alleged membership of, and support to the banned People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI). Mr. Davoodi has been in prison since 2003, where he has been subjected to ill-treatment and torture. Reportedly, Mr. Davoodi was allowed less than an hour to prepare his defence and neither he nor his lawyer was allowed to attend the hearing of his case before the Revolutionary Court of Karaj. Mr. Davoodi was the subject of an earlier communication sent on 18 June 2008, see A/HRC/11/4/Add.1, paras. 1288-1293. Of additional concern is the recent report of the detention of four journalists on the evening of 22 July 2014: Mr. Jason Rezaian, a journalist with the Washington Post and an Iranian-US citizen, Ms. Yaganeh Salehi, a correspondent for The National, and two other US citizens. A/HRC/28/85 50 Date Type