Date Type Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted IDN 3/2014 13/06/2014 Indonesia JUA Discrimination against women ; Torture; Violence against women; Alleged gang rape of a woman accused of engaging in extramarital sex and subsequent threat of corporal punishment by caning. According to the information received, on 7 May, 2014, Ms. X, a 26-year-old woman from Kampung Lhok Bani, Kota Langsa, was gang raped by a group of eight vigilantes who accused her of engaging in extramarital sex. After the assault took place, the attackers took Ms. X to the Shariah police where it was determined that she should be caned as a form of punishment for allegedly engaging in extramarital sex. Serious concern is expressed regarding the physical and psychological integrity of Ms. X, and information indicating that she could, despite being a victim of gang rape, be subjected to corporal punishment through caning. YEM 1/2014 16/06/2014 Yemen JUA Arbitrary detention; Torture; Allegations of incommunicado detention of a political prisoner for almost 33 years. According to the information received, Mr. Ahmed Ghanem Maarouf Al Masraba, a Yemeni national born in 1947 and a member of the Arab Socialist Baath Party, disappeared on 17 December 1981 after he surrendered himself to the authorities of North Yemen. As of 1984, Mr. Al Masraba was held in the Political Security prison of Sana’a and then transferred to a secret prison located in Belad Arrous in the south of Sana’a in 2003. His son was finally able to see him on 17 April 2014 at an unknown location in Sana’a. While the former director of the Political Security promised to release Mr. Al Masraba to Al Hudaydah psychiatric hospital, he has not been released and his whereabouts were at the time of writing unknown. IRN 10/2014 17/06/2014 Iran (Islamic JUA Republic of) Arbitrary detention; Independence of judges and lawyers; Iran; Summary executions; Torture; Alleged imminent execution of four Kurdish men sentenced to death on charges of Moharebeh (enmity against God) and Ifsad filarz (corruption on earth). According to the information received, Messrs’ Kamal Malaie, Jahangir Dehghani, Jamshed Dehghani and Hamed Ahmadi, belonging to the Kurdish minority of Sunni Muslim faith, were arrested in 2009 and reportedly subjected to torture and other forms of illtreatment, and forced to confess to their involvement in the assassination of a senior Sunny cleric. They were also reportedly denied access to a lawyer before and during their trials. On 13 June 2014, the families of the four men were reportedly allowed to visit them in Ghezal Hesar prison for the last time before the execution of their sentences. On 16 June 2014, the families were again given a meeting with the four men, in what appears to be a final visit before their execution. Reply A/HRC/28/85 13

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