Date Type Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted Reply EGY 11/2014 29/08/2014 Egypt JAL Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Human rights defenders; 08/11/2014 Allegations concerning the compulsory registration of all civil society organisations with the Ministry of Social Solidarity in Egypt, in accordance with the restrictive provisions of the Law on Non-Governmental Organizations (No. 84 of 2002). According to the information received, on 18 July 2014, the Ministry of Social Solidarity issued a notice in the newspaper Ahram, requiring all civil society “entities” to register in accordance with the provisions of Law No. 84 of 2002. This announcement comes in the midst of ongoing discussions to revise the Law, which has repeatedly been described as not complying with international standards pertaining to the right to freedom of association, and which the authorities pledged to revise during the country’s Universal Periodic Review in 2010. The restrictive content of Law No. 84 of 2002 was the subject of a previous communication sent on 17 November 2011, see A/HRC/19/44, case no. EGY 12/2011. BHR 12/2014 03/09/2014 Bahrain JUA Arbitrary detention; Freedom of expression; Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Human rights defenders; Allegations of the arrest and detention of a human rights defender. According to the information received, on 30 August 2014, Ms. Maryam Al-Khawaja, the co-director of the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR), co-founder of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR) and daughter of Mr. Abdulhadi Abdulla Hubail Al-Khawaja, who has been imprisoned since 2011, was detained at the Bahrain airport while travelling to visit her father in prison. Allegedly, she was stopped at the airport because her Bahraini passport had expired, although she was traveling with her Danish passport. She was later transferred to Isa Town women’s prison and is being detained for seven days on charges of assaulting a police officer pending investigation by the Public Prosecution. Ms. Al-Khawaja’s Danish passport was allegedly confiscated and she has been denied access to a lawyer. It is believed that these charges relate to the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights “Wanted for Justice” campaign in which they named alleged human rights violators in the country. Ms. Al-Khawaja was the subject of two previous communications dated 9 September 2011, see A/HRC/19/44, case no. BHR 18/2011; and 18 October 2012, see A/HRC/22/67, case no. BHR 10/2012. A/HRC/28/85 71