Date Type 21/02/2013 JAL 22/02/2013 JUA Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted Reply ZWE 1/2013 Zimbabwe Freedom of expression; Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Human rights defenders; Violence against women; Allegations of repeated acts of harassments against civil society actors, mostly working on human rights issues. According to the information received, on 11 February 2013, police officers searched the offices of the Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) in Harare on the grounds that ZPP allegedly had subversive material, documents, gadgets or recordings and had contravened the Immigration Act. On 19 February 2013, police officers searched the Harare offices of the Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN), which has been suspected of having committed the same offense as the ZPP. On the same day, ZESN offices in Masvingo were burglarised by unidentified men. It is reported that these incidents follow a series of other searches and acts of harassments against non-governmental organizations and their members. On 14 February 2013, nine members of the Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA), who were taking part in a peaceful protest outside Parliament building in Harare, were reportedly assaulted and arrested by police forces. Most of them were released without any charge a few hours after their arrests. It is alleged that these measures form part of a continuing campaign aimed at intimidating and silencing associations, in the context of the forthcoming referendum and elections in Zimbabwe. SDN 2/2013 Sudan Freedom of expression; Summary executions; Torture; Alleged imposition of the death penalty on a community activist. According 15/03/2013 to the information received, in 2009, Mr. Bakri Moussa Mohammed, a community activist in the Kalma camp for displaced people in South Darfur was arrested. Moreover, Mr. Moussa Mohammed was sentenced in 2010 to 10 years of imprisonment for alleged participation in a murder, in retaliation for his activism. On 31 December 2012, an officer of the Kober prison in Khartoum informed Mr. Moussa Mohammed, that his punishment had been revised to a death sentence. Subsequently, he was transferred to death row. The same day, he was reportedly brought to the gallows three times, before being told that the execution would be postponed for 35 days. It is reported that there was no hearing about this change of sentence and that Mr. Moussa Mohammed could be executed at any moment. It is alleged that the decision was taken by the prison administration under pressure from the National Security Service. A/HRC/23/51 71