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
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