Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted 01/10/10 JAL THA 7/2010 Freedom of expression; Human rights defenders Alleged arrest of human rights defender. According to information received, on 6 March 06/10/10 2009 Ms. Chiranuch Premchaiporn, editor of Prachatai, an online media portal, was arrested 17/02/11 for having allowed readers to post comments on Prachatai’s online discussion forum that allegedly defamed the King of Thailand. On 31 March 2010, she was reportedly arrested again for the same alleged offence. On 24 September, she was arrested again, at Suvarnabhumi airport in Bangkok upon returning from a trip to Lithuania and Hungary. She was allegedly shown an arrest warrant relating to material posted on the Prachatai website in April 2008. On 25 September 2010, Ms. Premchaiporn was released on bail, awaiting trial for the charges mentioned above, which in total could lead to a 50-year prison sentence. 06/10/10 JUA VNM 4/2010 Arbitrary detention; Freedom of religion; Torture Alleged attacks and threats against Degar Christians. According to the information 30/03/11 received, on 22 August 2010 Vietnamese soldiers, riot police, security forces and local police forces surrounded, attacked and threatened Degar Christians in 32 villages in Gia Lai Province. Reportedly, the villagers were told to renounce their faith and officially join the State-approved church, the Evangelical Church of Vietnam. Ms. Puih H´Bat, who had lead prayer services in her house in Ploi Bang village, had already been detained for more than two years. On 11 April 2008, she was reportedly arrested by police officers and taken to Ia Grai district prison. She was reportedly subsequently convicted of violating the law by “destruction of the unity of the people's solidarity” and sentenced to five years imprisonment. 07/10/10 JUA IRN 30/2010 Freedom of expression; Human rights defenders; Independence of judges and lawyers; Torture Alleged sentencing of a journalist and a blogger. According to the information received, on 07/10/10 27 September 2010, Mr. Isa Saharkhiz, a pro-reform movement journalist, was sentenced to 16/02/11 three years in prison, a five-year ban on political and journalistic activities, and a one-year travel ban. Mr. Saharkhiz was detained in July 2009 shortly after the disputed presidential elections and was charged with “insulting the Supreme Leader” and “propagating against the regime”. Mr. Saharkhiz was the subject of an earlier communication (see above, case no. IRN 10/2010). Mr. Saharkhiz’s case was deemed arbitrary by the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention in its opinion adopted on 6 May 2010 (No.8/2010). On 29 September 2010, blogger Mr. Hossein Derakhshan was convicted by the Revolutionary Court of cooperating with hostile States, propaganda against the system, propaganda in favour of counter-revolutionary groups, insults to the holy sanctities, and set-up and management of vulgar and obscene websites. He was sentenced to 19.5 years in prison and a five year ban on political and journalistic activities. Mr. Derakhshan was reportedly detained at his home in Tehran on 1 November 2008 in connection with comments he allegedly made about a cleric, and spent over a year without charge and in solitary confinement for nine months. Thailand Viet Nam Iran (Islamic Republic of) Reply A/HRC/18/51 136 Date Type