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B.
Replies received between 1 May 2013 and 31 July 2013 relating to communications sent before
1 March 2013
11.
The table below lists, in chronological order, communications dating before 1 March 2013 to which a reply or an additional
reply has been received in the period between 1 May and 31 July 2013. Copies of the full text of the communications sent and the
reply received during the reporting period can be accessed from the electronic version of this report available on the OHCHR
website. Some names of individuals or other information have been rendered anonymous or otherwise unidentifiable. The table
below also includes additional responses to 13 communications received before 1 May 2013, which were inadvertently omitted in
the previous report A/HRC/23/51 due to technical errors. These cases are EGY 2/2012, MEX 4/2012, ARE 6/2012, DZA 3/2012,
GBR 5/2012, NPL 5/2012, ARE 7/2012, MMR 8/2012, SYR 10/2012, BGD 8/2012, SYR 11/2012, CRI 3/2012 and GTM 8/2012.
Date
Type
03/03/2011
JUA
Case No
Country
Mandate(s)
Summary of the allegation transmitted
Reply
SAU 1/2011
Saudi Arabia
Arbitrary
detention;
Freedom of
expression;
Human rights
defenders;
03/06/2013
Alleged detention of the founders of a political party. According to the
information received, on 16 February 2011, Mr. Ahmad bin Sa‘d al-Ghamdi, Mr.
Abdul Aziz al-Wuhaibi, Mr. Muhammad bin Hussain al-Qahtani and Mr.
Muhammad bin Nasser al-Ghamdi, together with three other Saudi Arabian
citizens, were arrested by members of the Interior Ministry‘s General
Intelligence. A week prior to their detention, they had submitted a request for
recognition of what would be Saudi Arabia‘s first political party, the Islamic
Omma Party. All of them were asked to sign an undertaking that they would
renounce their activities with the party. Mr. bin Sa‘d al-Ghamdi, Mr. Aziz alWuhaibi, Mr. bin Hussain al-Qahtani and Mr. bin Nasser al-Ghamdi reportedly
refused to do so, and as a result they were placed in detention.
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