Date Type Case No Country Summary of the allegation transmitted Reply 30/03/11 SYR 4/2011 JUA Syrian Arab Republic Arbitrary detention; Disappearances; Freedom of expression; Human rights defenders; Summary executions; Torture Alleged assault and arrest in relation to peaceful demonstration. According to the 06/07/11 information received, on 16 March 2011 about 150 individuals gathered outside the Ministry of Interior in Damascus to present a petition calling for the release of prisoners of conscience. Security services agents reportedly transported a number of the demonstrators to the Mantaqa branch of Military Security. One of these individuals, Mr. Bader Shalah, was reportedly hit over his eye with a baton. The next day the authorities reportedly interrogated and charged 32 of the demonstrators: Omar Al-Labwani, Riba Al-Labwani, Laila Al-Labwani, Ammar AlLabwani, Siba Hafiz Hassan, human rights defender Sereen Khouri, Nahid Badawieh, Naret Ibrahim Abdul Karim, Badr Eddin Al-Shallash, Kamal Shaikho member of the Committee for the Defence of Democratic Liberties and Human Rights in Syria (CDF), Suhair Al-Attassi, President of the Attassi Forum, a pro-democracy discussion group, Mohamed Osama Nassar, Saad Jawdat Saeed, Bisher Jawdat Saeed, Ghaffer Hikmat Muhammad, Dana Ibrahim AlJawabra, Wafa Mohamed Al-Lahman, Nabil Walid Shurbaji, Fahima (Herveen) Saleh Awsi, a member of the Kurdish Committee for Human Rights, Rayan Kamal Suleyman, Muhammad Dia’ Aldeen Daghmash, Nasr Eddin Fakr Eddin Ahmi, Zokan Nofal, Ali Abdul Rahman AlMuqdad, Shaher Al-Warea, Hisham Khalid Al-Droubi, Mohammad Hassan Al-Khalil, Nisreen Khalid Hasan, Adel Al-Bunni, Fahed Al-Bassam Al-Yimani, Abdul Al-Razzaq AlTemmo, Mudar Al-Asimi. These individuals were reportedly detained in the Damascus Central Prison of Adra or Douma Prison for Women. There was no information concerning the situation of several other family members who were reportedly arrested in relation to the peaceful demonstration: Hussein Al-Labwani, Hannibal Awwad, Mahmoud Ghawrani, Mohammad Adib Matar, Mohammad Darwish, Ghaffar Hikmat Muhammad, Abdul Rahman Kheto, Kaka Dawood, Mohammad Munir Al-Fakir, Bara Kellizin, Mohammad Al-Katib and Wissam Tarif. 31/03/11 ISR 3/2011 JUA Israel Arbitrary detention; Torture Alleged arbitrary detention and ill-treatment. According to the information received, on 07/06/11 27 January 2011, Mr. Dirar Abusisi, a Jordanian national born in 1969, left Gaza with his Ukrainian wife and their youngest son to move to Ukraine. On 18 February, while travelling by train from Kharkov to Kiev, Mr. Abusisi was reportedly approached by police officers, locked in one of the train’s carriages and subsequently removed from the train. He was later met by a group of men who introduced themselves as agents of the Israeli Mossad (intelligence service). Mr. Abusisi was reportedly interrogated blindfolded with his hands and legs shackled. He was allegedly asked questions about the whereabouts of an Israeli soldier. Soon afterwards, Mr. Abusisi was allegedly put on an airplane and flown to Israel, where he was detained at a General Security Service interrogation center in Ashkelon. 81 A/HRC/18/51 Mandate(s)