Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted MYS 2/2014 28/03/2014 Malaysia JAL Freedom of expression; Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Freedom of religion; Minority issues; Alleged arbitrary arrest and persecution of several members of the Shi’a Muslim minority community in Malaysia for their religious belief. According to information received, on 8 March 2014, Mr. Mohd Kamilzuhairi Abd Aziz, a local leader of Malaysian Shi’a Muslims, together with 113 other individuals, including Messrs’ Abdullah Hassan, Mohammad Ridzuan, Abdul Manap Abdul Hamid, Idris Mat Desa, Abu Bakar Ahmad, Abdullah Isa and Ms. Nur Azah Binti Abdul Halim, and other women and children, were arrested by the Perak’s Islamic Religious Affairs Department and the police, while they attended the commemoration of a religious celebration. Serious concern is expressed that the arrests may be part of a crackdown on, and persecution of members of, the Shi’a Muslim community in Malaysia, which has been allegedly ongoing since adoption of a 1996 fatwa by the Fatwa Committee of the National Council for Islamic Affairs that describes Shi’ism as a “deviant ideology”. NGA 2/2014 28/03/2014 Nigeria JAL Summary executions; Torture; Alleged attacks on grounds of actual or perceived sexual orientation, and police inaction with regards to these attacks. According to the information received, a group of men were attacked by another group of individuals on 12 and 13 February 2014 in Gishiri village, Abuja, on the grounds of their actual or perceived sexual orientation. It is alleged that the attacked men were threatened with death, severely injured and robbed. While some of the attacked men were taken to the police stations in Gishiri and Mabushi, they were reportedly also insulted and beaten by the police, as well as interrogated about their sexuality. Reportedly, the police have not investigated these attacks. Grave concern is expressed at the allegations of ill-treatment amounting to torture, and the death threats made against these men, as well as at the alleged failure of the authorities to investigate, prosecute and punish the perpetrators of those acts. Reply A/HRC/27/72 26 Date Type