Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted Reply 23/12/10 RUS 11/2010 Human rights JUA defenders; Russian Independence Federation of judges and lawyers 29/03/11 Alleged ill-treatment by police officers and criminal investigation against a human rights lawyer. According to the information received, there had been a lack of progress in the criminal investigations regarding the alleged assault against Ms. Sapiyat Magomedova, human rights lawyer, by officers of the Khasavyurt Police Station on 17 June 2010. However, the criminal investigation against Ms. Magomedova for alleged “public insult of a State official while on duty” continued. Ms. Magomedova was the subject of earlier communications (see A/HRC/16/52/Add.1, paras 181 and 183). 23/12/10 RUS 12/2010 Health AL Russian Federation Alleged shortages and interruptions in anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment. According to the information received, nineteen Russian citizens living with HIV/AIDS suffered from interruptions in their ARV treatment due to unavailability of drugs in 2010. There have allegedly been major documented delays in delivery and shortage of essential ARV drugs in health-care facilities in Arkhangelsk, Kaliningrad, Moscow, Moscow Region, St. Petersburg, Samara, Saratov, Tula, Ulyanovsk, Vladimir and other regions of the Russian Federation. It is further alleged that interruptions in ARV treatment of one month or longer were reported in fifteen prisons. 23/12/10 RUS 13/2010 Health AL Russian Federation Alleged denial of access to drug-dependence treatment programs. According to the information received, drug-dependence treatment programs in penitentiary, public and private health facilities require immediate and permanent cessation of drug use, which have proved to be ineffective in many cases, impeding long-term rehabilitation of persons who use drugs. It is alleged that persons who use drugs are continuously denied Opioid Substitution Treatment (OST). It is further alleged that the unavailability of OST has prevented those persons from accessing and using the effective method of treatment against drug dependence, and led to the deterioration of their state of health. 23/12/10 YEM 6/2010 UA Yemen Alleged imposition of the death penalty on two minors. According to the information received, the Penal Code of Yemen prohibits the use of the death penalty against all persons below the age of 18, but courts do not consistently apply this legislation. Mr. Fuad Ahmed Ali Abdulla was allegedly sentenced to death penalty on the charges of murder, allegedly committed in June 2004, when he was 16 or 17 years old. Mr. Muhammed Taher Thabet Samoum has also been convicted of murder, allegedly committed in May 2002. In the absence of a birth certificate, it is unclear how the court determined his age, and Mr. Samoum maintains that he was around fifteen years old at the time of the offence. His death sentence had been ratified by the President and he would be at imminent risk of execution. Summary executions A/HRC/18/51 24 Date Type