Date Type Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted Reply USA 14/2013 Health; 23/08/2013 United States of Torture; JUA America Alleged denial of medical treatment and the use of shackles during the eventual medical 16/07/2014 treatment. According to the information received, Ms Lynne Stewart was convicted in 2005 of providing material support to terrorists when she represented a client. In 2010, she was reportedly resentenced in light of a perjury charge to 10 years in prison. It is alleged that when she was imprisoned, her cancer had metastasized. She was scheduled for surgery within a week’s time. However, it is reported that she was denied the medical treatment until 18 months later, by which time the cancer had spread to her lymph nodes, shoulders, bones, and lungs. Allegedly the cancer is now stage 4 and has become terminal. It is also alleged that during her medical treatments for the cancer, she wasshackled to the bed with leg iron restraints, handcuffs and belly chains for no justifiable security reason. EGY 13/2013 30/08/2013 Egypt JUA 04/10/2013 Allegations regarding the escalating violence and intimidation against journalists and 26/10/2013 the media in Egypt. According to the information received, Al Jazeera Egypt and six other TV channels were reportedly shut down by Egyptian authorities in the early hours 05/06/2014 of the military coup on 3 July 2013. It is alleged that the channels include at least three Islamist-run TV stations including one operated by the Muslim Brotherhood. On the same day Al-Jazeera’s office, specifically Al Jazeera’s Mubasher Misr channel, was reportedly raided by the security forces, and a number of staff members were detained. Concerns are raised regarding these attacks against Al Jazeera media group and the alleged arbitrary arrests and detention of Messrs Ayman Mohamed Gaballa, Abdelfattah Fayed, Ahmad Hassan, Mohammed Badr, Mohamad Salheh, Abdullah El-Shamy, and alleged killings of Messrs’ Mick Deane, Ahmed Abdel Gawad, Mosab El-Shami Rassd, and Ms Habiba Ahmed Abd Elaziz. Arbitrary detention; Freedom of expression; Human rights defenders; Summary executions; A/HRC/27/72 81