Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted UGA 8/2011 28/12/2011 Uganda AL Food; Alleged forced eviction of subsistence farmers in Northern Uganda. According to information received, from 17 to 21 August 2001 the Ugandan army (Uganda People‟s Defence Force, UPDF), using excessive force, expelled close to 4000 inhabitants of the villages of Kitemba, Luwunga, Kijunga and Kiryamakobe in the Mubende District from their land in order to lease the land to the Kaweri Coffee Plantation Ltd. Allegedly, a total of 2524 hectares of land were unlawfully seized from these communities, houses were burnt and demolished, moveable properties were looted and crops destroyed. Reportedly, the evictees lived on their respective lands for more than 12 years, unchallenged, and used the land productively for farming purposes. Allegedly, almost no compensation was provided to the evicted inhabitants and no adequate relocation options were provided. Reportedly, in 2002, 2,041 evictees sought legal redress for the alleged violations and brought the case to the Ugandan High Court. Reports received indicate that since the filing in 2002 the case has been delayed in Nakawa High Court, Kampala and no substantial decision has been reached. OTH 6/2011 29/12/2011 Other AL Independence of judges and lawyers; Alleged moratorium imposed on the Tribunal of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and non-reappointment of its former President and members. According to the information received, on 19 May 2011, the Council of Ministers of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) took the following decisions which were subsequently endorsed by the Summit of Heads of State and Government at its extraordinary meeting on 20 May 2011: 1) not to re-appoint members of the SADC Tribunal whose term of office had expired on 31 August 2010 - namely former President Ariranga G. Pillay and Justices Rigoberto Kambovo, Onkemetse B. Tshosa and Frederick Chomba, former members of the Tribunal; 2) not to replace members of the Tribunal whose term of office expired on 31 October 2011; and 3) to bar the Tribunal from hearing new or pending cases, until completion and approval of a revision of the SADC Protocol on the Tribunal. Disappearances; Freedom of expression; Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Human rights defenders; Violence against women; Allegations of detention and acts of intimidation against a group of human rights and political activists who were planning to attend a peaceful protest in Jaffna on the occasion of Human Rights Day. According to the information received, on 10 December 2011, 42 human rights and political activists from the south of the country were prevented by security forces from joining a peaceful protest in Jaffna to mark Human Rights Day. They were detained for a couple of hours, and their materials confiscated and never returned. A number of activists also faced acts of intimidation from police officers. LKA 11/2011 29/12/2011 Sri Lanka JAL Reply A/HRC/20/30 30 Date Type