Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted ISR 4/2013 27/03/2013 Israel JUA Arbitrary detention; Freedom of expression; Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Human rights defenders; Independence of judges and lawyers; OPT; Terrorism; Torture; Alleged arrest, ill-treatment and arbitrary detention of a human rights defender. According to the information received, Mr. Hassan Karajah was arrested on 23 January 2012 at his family home and taken to an interrogation facility. He was reportedly denied access to a lawyer during the first twenty days of his detention. Furthermore it is reported that he was not allowed to take the necessary medication for his conditions along with him at the time of his arrest, and that he has been subjected to ill-treatment while in detention. He remained in detention as the trial against him in a military court was set to resume on 4 April 2013. Mr. Karajah is the youth coordinator of the Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall (Stop The Wall) Movement, an organization which peacefully protests the presence and expansion of the Wall as well as defending the rights of prisoners. SAU 5/2013 27/03/2013 Saudi Arabia JUA Arbitrary detention; Freedom of expression; Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Human rights defenders; Alleged prison sentences and travel bans not complying with human rights law and standards. According to the information received, on 9 March 2013, Mr. Mohammad Fahd al-Qahtani and Mr. Abdulla Al Hamid, co-founders of the Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association, were sentenced to ten and five years’ imprisonment respectively for, inter alia, founding an unlicensed association and diffusing false information, including to UN human rights bodies. Both were also imposed travel bans of equal duration to their prison terms. Moreover, the Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association was dissolved and its property confiscated, on the ground that it was illegally established. Mr. Al-Qahtani and Mr. Al Hamid were the subjects of a previous communication (see A/HRC/22/67, case no SAU 9/2012). Reply A/HRC/24/21 26 Date Type