Date Type Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted Reply EGY 5/2014 09/05/2014 Egypt JAL Freedom of expression; Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Human rights defenders; 02/07/2014 Alleged ban on the activities of a human rights movement. According to the information received, on 28 April 2014, the Cairo Court for Urgent Matters issued an Expedited Decision which included “a ban on activities held by the April 6 Youth Movement in the Arab Republic of Egypt, as well as a ban on any committee or organization that belongs to it or is derived from it or funded by it”. Concern is expressed that the ban of the April 6 Youth Movement may be related to their peaceful work in defending human rights and civil liberties in Egypt. The Head of the April 6 Youth Movement was the subject of two earlier communications sent on 3 December 2013, see A/HRC/26/21, case no. EGY 16/2013, and 24 December 2013, see A/HRC/26/21, case no. EGY 19/2013. ISR 2/2014 09/05/2014 Israel JAL Freedom of expression; Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Human rights defenders; OPT; Alleged excessive use of force and interference with the right to peaceful assembly. According to the information received, between 31 January and 7 February 2014, Israeli Defence Force soldiers and Border Police Officers on several occasions interfered, including through the use of force, with the peaceful protest camp erected in the abandoned village of Ein Hijleh in the Jordan Valley, in the West Bank, occupied Palestinian territory. Interference included obstructing people, food and medical supplies from reaching the camp. These interferences culminated in the forceful eviction of the protest camp in the early hours on 7 February 2014, and several protesters were injured as a result. SAU 7/2014 09/05/2014 Saudi Arabia JUA Arbitrary detention; Freedom of expression; Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Human rights defenders; Alleged incommunicado detention of the founding president of the Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association (ACPRA). According to the information received, Dr. Abdulrahman Al-Hamed, human rights defender and founding president of ACPRA, signed a statement on 12 April 2014 calling for the trial of the Minister of Interior for suppressing public freedoms. On 17 April 2014, Dr. Al-Hamed was detained while reporting to the Criminal Investigation Department in Burayda. While in detention, he has not been allowed to see his family or his lawyer. Members of ACPRA were the subject of three earlier communications sent on 3 February 2014, see A/HRC/24/21, case no. SAU 1/2014, on 27 March 2013, see A/HRC/24/21, case no. SAU 5/2013, and on 21 December 2012, see A/HRC/23/51, case no. SAU 13/2012. A/HRC/27/72 59

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