Date Type 12/10/2012 JUA 15/10/2012 JAL Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted Reply SDN 7/2012 Sudan Freedom of expression; Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Human rights defenders; Summary executions; Terrorism; Violence against women; Allegation of charges brought against a political activist and human rights defender. According to the information received, on 15 March 2012, Ms. Jalila Khamis Koko was arrested at her home in Khartoum, by agents of the National Security Services (NSS) and was later transferred to Omdurman prison in the capital. On 15 September 2012, Ms. Khamis Koko was summoned by the Prosecutor and Khartoum Criminal Court on charges of crimes against the state. She faces six charges, five of which are categorized as crimes against the state, and two of them carry the death penalty. Prior to her arrest, Ms. Khamis Koko was working as a volunteer by providing humanitarian support to internally displaced people from Southern Kordofan. In June 2011, she reportedly appeared in a Youtube video in which she denounced the conditions in conflict affected areas of Southern Kordofan and called for a ceasefire. Ms. Khamis Koko was a member of the Sudan People‘s Liberation Movement – North (SPLM-N), an opposition party which was banned in September 2011. GTM 6/2012 Guatemala Freedom of expression; Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Human rights defenders; Indigenous peoples; Summary executions; Alegaciones de actos de violencia y uso desproporcionado de la fuerza contra 09/01/2013 manifestantes pacíficos en el contexto de unas protestas en la cumbre de Alaska, jurisdicción de Santa Catarina Ixtahuacán, Sololá. Según la información recibida, el jueves 4 de octubre de 2012, aproximadamente unos 15.000 a 20.000 miembros de comunidades indígenas habrían participado en unas protestas pacíficas para denunciar la reforma constitucional, la reforma de la carrera magisterial y el alto precio de la energía eléctrica. Se habrían producido serios enfrentamientos entre las fuerzas del ejército y los manifestantes, resultando en la muerte del Sr. José Eusebio Puac Baquiax, del Sr. Santos Hernández Menchú, del Sr. Jesús Baltazar Caxaj Puac, del Sr. Arturo Félix Sapón Yaxm, del Sr. Jesús Francisco Puac Ordóñez y del Sr. Rafael Nicolás Batz, y más de 33 personas fueron heridas, incluyendo por intoxicación de gases lacrimógenos. A/HRC/22/67 121

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