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• Yorm Bopha, the subject of opinion No. 24/2013 (Cambodia), was released on bail
on 22 November 2013. She was arrested again on 21 January 2014 along with other
human rights activists for protesting against the imprisonment of 23 persons who
had participated in a demonstration by garment factory workers. They were detained
for several hours and released after they signed a statement pledging not to
participate in illegal activities or protests in the future.
• Nguyen Tien Trung, one of the individuals concerned in opinion No. 27/2012 (Viet
Nam), is a blogger who was convicted in January 2010 to seven years of
imprisonment for alleged subversion against the State. According to the information
received, Mr. Trung was released on 12 April 2014 on the basis of his good
behaviour, after having served four years in imprisonment.
• Cu Huy Ha Vu, the subject of opinion No. 24/2011 (Viet Nam), is a prominent
human rights lawyer who was sentenced to imprisonment for seven years in April
2011 for allegedly spreading anti-government propaganda. According to the
information received, Mr. Vu was released on 5 April 2014 after having served three
years in prison, and has left for another country.
• On 30 September 2014, the relevant source informed the Working Group that human
rights defender Pierre-Claver Mbonimpa (opinion No. 33/2014 (Burundi)) was
conditionally released from prison on 29 September 2014 on grounds of ill health.
The court placed travel restrictions on him and he remains in hospital.
• On 18 October 2014, the relevant source informed the Working Group that La Ring
and Kyaw Hla Aung, subjects of opinions No. 24/2014 (Myanmar) and No. 31/2014
(Myanmar), respectively, had been released from prison on 7 October 2014.
• In its opinion 12/2013 (Bahrain), the Working Group found that the detention of
Nabeel Abdulrasool Rajab, a prominent Bahraini human rights defender, was
arbitrary. Upon completion of his prison sentence, he was released on 24 May 2014,
but the Court barred him from leaving the country. He is still facing the charge of
“insulting a public institution and the army” via Twitter, pursuant to article 216 of
the Bahraini Penal Code, an offence punishable by up to six years of imprisonment.
• By note verbale dated 27 November 2014, the Government of Argentina informed
the Working Group that the High Court of Córdoba had ordered the end of the
preventive detention of Guillermo Luis Lucas, which was subject of opinion
No. 20/2013 (Argentina), and had held all the charges brought against him to be
without effect.
• By note verbale of 6 January 2015, the Government of Cuba reported that Gerardo
Hernández Nordelo, Ramón Labaniño Salazar and Antonio Herreros Rodríguez,
held in United States federal prisons for 16 years, had been released from detention
and had arrived in Havana on 17 September 2014. The Government of Cuba
expressed gratitude to the Working Group for its efforts in finding a solution to this
case. The Working Group had declared arbitrary the detention of these three
persons, as well as the detention of Fernando González Llort and René González
Schweret, in its opinion No. 19/2005 (United States of America).
• On 6 January 2015, the relevant source informed the Working Group that Khaled ElKazaz, one of the subjects of opinion No. 39/2013 (Egypt), had been released. The
charges brought against him had been dropped and his case had been closed.
32.
The Working Group expresses its gratitude to those Governments that undertook
positive actions and released detainees that were subjects of its opinions. However, it also
expresses regret that Member States have not fully cooperated in enforcing the opinions.
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