Date Type Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted Reply KHM 3/2014 20/05/2014 Cambodia JAL Cambodia; Freedom of expression; Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Human rights defenders; Alleged acts of intimidation and threats against the Project Coordinator of the Land Reform Project at the Cambodian Centre for Human Rights (CCHR). According to the information received, on 25 April 2014, Mr. Vann Sophath and his team visited the site of a land dispute case, to film a documentary about one of the concerned families, when he was intimidated by security guards. On 9 May 2014, Mr. Sophath’s filming on site was interrupted again when armed security guards threatened him and forced him off the site. One security guard took pictures of Mr. Sophath and his car’s number plate. Concern is expressed at the intimidation and threats of violence targeting Mr. Sophath while carrying out his peaceful work promoting and protecting the rights of the families on the disputed land. EGY 7/2014 20/05/2014 Egypt JUA Arbitrary detention; Freedom of expression; Health; Independence of judges and lawyers; Torture; Allegations of arbitrary arrest and detention of a journalist and denial of medical care. 05/06/2014 According to the information received, Mr. Abdullah el-Shamy, a journalist for Al Jazeera, was apprehended on 14 August 2013 at Raba’a Square, Cairo. While he is accused of attempted murder, belonging to a terrorist organization, and harming national security, he has never been charged with any crime to date and remains in pre-trial detention. For the first seven months of his detention, Mr. el-Shamy effectively did not have access to a lawyer and while he submitted two requests for bail, one in October 2013 and one in March 2014, both of them were denied. Mr. alShamy has been on hunger strike since 21 January 2014 to protest his pre-trial detention and suffers from acute anaemia and kidney dysfunction as a result. Although his health is in critical condition, he is being denied medical treatment and since 12 May 2014, he remains in solitary confinement in Mazraet Unit of Tora prison. Mr. elShamy was the subject of an earlier communication sent on 30 August 2013, see A/HRC/25/74, case no. EGY 13/2013. A/HRC/27/72 65