Date Type Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted SAU 3/2014 14/05/2014 Saudi Arabia JUA Health; Violence against women; Allegations of ill-treatment, neglect, inadequate medical care and restricted movement of princesses Sahar (1971), Maha (1972), Hala (1974), and Jawaher (1976) born of the union between His Royal Highness King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and Ms. Alanoud Al Fayez. According to the information received, the four princesses are confined in royal compounds of the Jeddah palace; are not free to choose their medical caretakers and are given treatments and medicine without informed consent; are prevented from leaving the country; and have not had any physical contact with their mother, Ms. Al Fayez, who left the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 2003. Princesses Hala and Maha are reportedly both ill and deprived of appropriate treatment. It is further reported that following recent the media attention to their situation, two of the four princesses have been unable to purchase their food freely. SDN 2/2014 14/05/2014 Sudan JUA Arbitrary detention; Discrimination against women in law and in practice; Freedom of religion; Independence of judges and lawyers; Sudan; Summary executions; Torture; Violence against women; Allegations of arbitrary detention, denial of a fair trial and due process, ill-treatment and the issuing of an unlawful sentence on the basis of unfounded evidence and improper indictment on grounds of adultery and/or of apostasy. According to the information received Ms. Meriam Ibrahim, a 27-year-old pregnant Sudanese woman, is currently detained at Omdurman’s Women Prison near Khartoum with her 20 month-old son. She is facing the punishments of public flogging and execution under the 1991 Criminal Act if found guilty of charges of apostasy and adultery in a hearing to be held by Sudan’s Criminal Court on 15 May 2014. Concerns are expressed at the physical and mental safety of Ms. Ibrahim, a pregnant woman in prison with her son under harsh conditions; the existence of legislation that permits flogging; at the restrictions on Ms. Ibrahim’s right to practice and profess peacefully her religious beliefs; and at her right to a fair trial and due process. Reply A/HRC/27/72 61