Date Type Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted Reply IRQ 5/2012 11/10/2012 Iraq JUA Arbitrary detention; Independence of judges and lawyers; Summary executions; Terrorism; Torture; Alleged risk of imminent execution following proceedings that did not comply with international human rights law standards on fair trial and due process guarantees. According to the information received, Mr. Ahmad ‗Amr ‗Abd alQadir Muhammad, a Palestinian born in Iraq, was arrested in 2006 under accusations of attempting to plant explosives, and sentenced to death in 2011 on the basis of the Anti-Terror Law of 2005. He was allegedly held incommunicado for more than a year after his arrest, during which he was subjected to torture and had his confession extracted by coercion and torture. Following a trial that allegedly did not comply with international human rights law provisions of fair trial and due process guarantees, he was reportedly transferred to al-Kadhimiya Prison in Baghdad at the end of August 2012. He is reported to be at risk of imminent execution. 12/12/2012 MAR 2/2012 11/10/2012 Maroc UA Torture; 13/12/2012 Allégations d‘expulsion imminente vers la Libye et risque élevé de torture et de mauvais traitements. Selon les informations reçues, M. Aymane Souleymane Abdulhamid Sayeh, un citoyen libyen actuellement en détention au Maroc, est menacé d‘expulsion imminente vers la Libye, où il est allégué qu'il pourrait être soumis à la torture et aux mauvais traitements, ou même être tué. Il est aussi rapporté que le père de M. Sayeh était un agent de sécurité travaillant pour l‘ancien gouvernement libyen de Mouammar Kadhafi. PAK 11/2012 12/10/2012 Pakistan JUA Education; Freedom of expression; Human rights defenders; Summary executions; Violence against women; 27/03/2013 Alleged assassination attempt against an advocate for girl‘s education by the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). According to information received, on 9 October, 2012 two gunmen stopped the school bus in which Ms. Malala Yousafzai was returning home from school in the Swat Valley, Pakistan, and shot her and two other girls, critically injuring Ms. Yousafzai. On 10 October, a spokesperson for the TTP claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement to national and international media, and indicated that if she survives, she, and others who preach ―secularism and so called enlightened modernism‖ will be targeted again. A/HRC/23/51 93

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