Date Type Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted Reply SWE 1/2014 19/11/2014 Sweden JUA Freedom of expression; Human rights defenders; Torture; 14/01/2015 Alleged imminent deportation to Afghanistan of a journalist seeking asylum in Sweden, at risk of being tortured and killed by the Taliban, if forcibly returned. According to the information received, Mr. Saif Ur Rahman Shirzad was forced to flee his country in 2008 after receiving death threats from the Taliban due to his and his brother’s journalistic activities. Mr. Shirzad applied for asylum in Sweden in 2011, but his application and appeals were rejected. He presented a request for reexamination of his case and is awaiting a final decision. If rejected, his expulsion could be imminent. Mr. Shirzad had provided new information and evidence to sustain his case, including the fact that his brother was granted refugee status in Sweden in 2014 and his family in the United States of America in 2013, and their extended family in Afghanistan as well as the editor of the newspaper where the Shirzad brothers worked had continuously been receiving threats by the Taliban. Mr. Shirzad was the subject of an earlier communication sent on 2 May 2013, see A/HRC/27/72, case no. SWE 2/2013. GTM 7/2014 20/11/2014 Guatemala JAL Discrimination against women ; Health; Sale of children; Slavery; Violence against women; Alegaciones recibidas relacionadas con disposiciones en la legislación y en la práctica que discriminan a las mujeres y las niñas de manera directa o indirecta, tal como aquellas disposiciones en el Código Civil que consienten el matrimonio precoz y refuerzan determinados estereotipos en detrimento de la igualdad de género. Autorizar el matrimonio de las niñas menores de 18 años es una práctica discriminatoria, enraizada en las prácticas perjudiciales, consuetudinarias u otras basadas en roles estereotipados de hombres y mujeres, y de niñas y niños. A/HRC/28/85 129