Date Type Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted Reply 10/07/2014 GBR 1/2014 Adequate Alleged violation of the human rights of persons living in poverty in the context of 20/05/2014 United Kingdom housing; Extreme austerity measures. According to the information received, the Government has JAL of Great Britain poverty; Food; undertaken a combination of wide-ranging legal reforms and policy interventions and Northern designed to reduce public expenditure at the national and local level. A number of Ireland these measures were brought into effect through the Welfare Reform Act 2012. In January 2014, it was announced that austerity measures would continue between 2015 and 2017, with a further £12 billion to be cut from welfare expenditure. Concerns are expressed that these measures could severely undermine minimum essential levels of economic and social rights (in particular the right to an adequate standard of living, the right to adequate housing, the right to food, and the right to social security) in certain circumstances. The interventions amount to retrogressive measures prohibited under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. HTI 1/2014 21/05/2014 Haiti JUA Freedom of expression; Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Haiti; Human rights defenders; Summary executions; Allégations des menaces de mort perpétrées à l’encontre d’un défenseur des droits de l’homme. Selon les informations reçues, le 2 avril 2014, le Réseau National de Défense des Droits Humains (RNDDH) aurait reçu une lettre de menaces contenant une balle, adressée au Directeur Exécutif, M. Pierre Espérance. Les auteurs de la lettre auraient accusé M. Espérance d’établir de faux rapports pour déstabiliser le gouvernement, et de porter atteinte à l’honneur des citoyens. Ils auraient également rappelé à M. Espérance une tentative d’assassinat qu’il avait subie en 1999, en lui précisant que cette fois « il n’allait pas y échapper », et qu’il devait « arrêter de raconter des conneries ». De graves préoccupations sont exprimées quant à l’intégrité physique et psychologique de M. Espérance et du personnel du RNDDH. GBR 2/2014 21/05/2014 United Kingdom JUA of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Freedom of expression; Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Torture; Alleged imminent risk of forced return from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and 10/07/2014 Northern Ireland to Bahrain, and of torture or ill-treatment in detention upon return. According to the information received, Mr. X, a 19-year-old Bahraini national, has been detained by immigration authorities for over three months on Fast Track Detention (FTD) at Harmondsworth Detention Centre in London. His application for asylum has been refused twice and a deportation order was issued for 22 May 2014. Due to the well documented cases of torture and ill-treatment of political opponents and protestors in Bahrain, it is alleged that Mr. X faces a high risk of torture or illtreatment in detention in case of forcible return to Bahrain. A/HRC/27/72 67