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
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