Case No
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Mandate(s)
Summary of the allegation transmitted
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MDA 2/2014
08/07/2014 Republic of
JAL
Moldova
Migrants;
Racism;
Allegations of disproportionate punishment of four Israeli medical students based on 15/09/2014
their nationality, and subsequent biased public statements against foreign students
made by a high-ranking official of the Bureau on Migration and Asylum. According
to the information received, on 3 May 2014, a group of allegedly drunk Moldovans
provoked four Israeli nationals residing in Moldova as students - Messrs. Matani
Muhammad, Abu Ahmad Jihad, Dallashi Abd Alkader and Dallasheh Hamzeh - with
ethnically tainted statements outside of a restaurant in Chisinau. The provocation led
to a fight, following which the Israelis’ were each given a 400 MDL fine
(approximately 29 USD), expulsion orders and a five-year residence ban for
constituting threats to the State, thereby effectively terminating their medical studies.
Additionally, on 30 May 2014, following another fight in a nightclub between foreign
students and Moldovans, a high-ranking official of the Bureau on Migration and
Asylum reportedly made public statements biased against foreign students.
YEM 2/2014
09/07/2014 Yemen
JUA
Arbitrary
detention;
Torture;
Alleged incommunicado detention of a citizen of the United States of America.
According to the information received, on 26 January 2010, Mr. Sharif Mobley, a U.S.
citizen, was shot in his leg and seized by armed men in Sana’a. He was taken to the
Police Hospital in Sana’a where he was held incommunicado for a period of 21 to 25
days and interrogated by U.S. agents about his possible contact with a senior AlQaeda leader. He was then held incommunicado in the Political Security prison and
the Jumhori Hospital for another three to four weeks. On 7 March 2010, Mr. Mobley
allegedly attempted to escape from the Jumhori hospital and killed a security guard in
the process. He was subsequently transferred to the Central Prison in Sana’a around
September 2010 and charged with attempted murder. Mr. Mobley was last seen by his
lawyers at the Central Prison on 27 February 2014, after which his whereabouts have
become unknown.
A/HRC/28/85
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