Date Type Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted 24/11/10 AL UKR 5/2010 Human rights defenders Alleged harassment against human rights defenders. According to the information 04/02/11 received, on 8 September 2010 Mr. Ruslan Zabily, historian and Director of the National Memorial Museum of Victims of the Occupation Regimes “Tyurma na Lonskoho” was detained by the Security Service (SBU). Mr. Zabily was allegedly not informed of his rights upon arrest, and his request for a lawyer was reportedly ignored. The officers reportedly confiscated his laptop and two external hard disk drives, which contained copies of historical material and academic research. Mr. Zabily’s case was classified as “top secret”, which allegedly restricted his right to defence. Furthermore, on 14 October 2010, Messrs. Oleksiy Verentsov, a lawyer and leader of the human rights organisation “Vartovi Zakonu” and Ihor Tanychkevych, were arrested following the organisation of a peaceful protest. Allegedly, during the subsequent court hearing in Halytsky District Court, Lviv, Messrs. Verentsov and Tanychkevych’s lawyer was denied access to the courtroom and witnesses were not interrogated. On 15 October 2010, a police raid was reportedly carried out at the offices of the Vinnitsa Human Rights Group, as well as the house of its Chair, Mr. Dmytro Groysman. Reportedly, during the search the police confiscated UNHCR files, confidential information regarding clients and refugee cases, along with computer disks, memory sticks and a laptop. 26/11/10 JAL USA 19/2010 Terrorism; Torture United States of America Ukraine Alleged torture and ill-treatment by Iraqi security forces. According to the information received, there was extensive abuse of detainees by Iraqi security forces over a five-year period between 2004 and 2009. United States authorities reportedly had knowledge of the systematic use of torture and other ill-treatment by Coalition, Iraqi and private security officials; and, in most cases, failed to intervene to prevent and/or investigate hundreds of reports of systematic abuse and torture. Allegedly, US forces acting under “fragmentary orders,” “Frago 242” and “Frago 039” were required to make no intervention in cases of abuse and/or torture involving Iraqis if the US troops were not initially involved. The orders also required US forces to report abuse to the US command but not to conduct any further investigation or take any further action to stop abuse or torture unless instructed to do so by higher order. Furthermore, thousands of Iraqi nationals who had been detained by US forces were reportedly handed over from US to Iraqi custody between early 2009 and July 2010 under a November 2008 US-Iraq agreement that contains no provisions for safeguarding the detainees’ physical and mental integrity after the transfer. Reply 20/05/11 A/HRC/18/51 141