II. Communications sent and replies received A. Communications sent between 1 December 2010 and 31 May 2011 and replies received by 31 July 2011 12. Communications are sorted in chronological order. Copies of the full text of the communications sent and Government replies received may be accessed from the electronic version of this report available on the website of the Human Rights Council. Some names of individuals or other information have been rendered anonymous or otherwise unidentifiable. Date Type Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted 01/12/10 BRA 7/2010 JUA Brazil Human rights defenders; Summary executions Alleged assassination attempt of the head of the Associação dos Homens do Mar – AHOMAR. According to the information received, on 31 July 2010, Mr Alexandre Anderson de Souza and his wife, Ms. Daize Menezes de Souza, survived an apparent assassination attempt by two armed individuals. Mr de Souza is the head of AHOMAR, an organisation which aims to defend the rights of fisher folk in Rio de Janeiro, in particular those affected by the construction of a gas pipeline for the company Petrobras, which AHOMAR opposed. The alleged assassination attempt in July 2010 against Mr. Anderson de Souza followed the killing on 22 May 2009 of Mr. Paulos Santos Sousa, former Treasurer of AHOMAR. Reportedly, prior to this killing, other members of AHOMAR had received death threats. Furthermore, it was reported that Mr. Anderson de Souza had survived a previous assassination attempt on 1 May 2009. 01/12/10 IRQ 8/2010 JAL Iraq Terrorism; Torture 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, documented by forces of the United States of America. The information also suggests that such acts were conducted with impunity. Thousands of Iraqi nationals who had been detained by US forces were handed over from US to Iraqi custody between early 2009 and July 2010 under a November 2008 US-Iraq agreement that allegedly contains no provisions for safeguarding the detainees’ physical and mental integrity after the transfer. It is alleged that tens of thousands of detainees had been held by Iraqi authorities without trial. Reply 12/01/11 A/HRC/18/51 9