Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted Reply MYS 3/2012 16/05/2012 Malaysia JAL Freedom of expression; Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Human rights defenders; Torture; Alleged excessive use of force by law enforcement authorities against peaceful protestors, and acts of harassment against media personnel and human rights defenders. According to the information received, a public sit-in organized by the Coalition for Fair and Free Elections (Bersih) in Kuala Lumpur on 28 April 2012 met with police brutality. The police reportedly used, in an indiscriminate manner, tear gas and water cannons to disperse the peaceful protestors injuring several of them. It is also reported that media personnel covering the protest were assaulted by security forces. Since this demonstration took place, Ms. Ambiga Sreenevasan, who is one of the leaders of the Coalition for Fair and Free Elections, has been, on different occasions, the target of severe and sustained acts of harassment and intimidation. Bersih members were the subject of a previous communication (see A/HRC/19/44, case no MYS 6/2011). Ms. Ambiga Sreenevasan was also the subject of a previous communication (see A/HRC/20/30, case no MYS 11/2011). 26/09/2012 BLR 2/2012 21/05/2012 Belarus JAL Freedom of expression; Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Human rights defenders; Independence of judges and lawyers; Alleged imposition of travel bans on, due process violations against and sentencing 09/10/2012 of human rights defenders. According to the information received, on 13 February 2011, the Minsk City Court dismissed Mr. Valiantsin Stefanovich‘s appeal, upholding an order to pay a fine of 53 million rubles for ―non-payment or incomplete payment of taxes‖. Mr. Stefanovich is the Vice-Chairman of the Human Rights Centre ―Viasna‖. On 24 January 2012, the Minsk City Court reportedly dismissed the appeal of Ales Bialiatski, Chairman of ―Viasna‖ and FIDH Vice-President, upholding the sentence of four and a half years imprisonment and fines totalling 757 million rubles for ―tax evasion on a large scale‖. It is alleged that these criminal cases were politically motivated. Reportedly, Mr. Aleh Volchek, Head of Legal Aid to the Population, was sentenced to four days of administrative detention on 30 January for ―petty hooliganism‖ after his organisation had published a report on the trial of Mr. Bialiatski. In March 2012, Ms. Zhanna Litvina, chairperson of the Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ), and Messrs. Valiantsin Stefanovich, Aleh Hulak, member of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee (BHC), Andrey Dynko, editor-inchief of the independent newspaper ―Nasha Niva‖, and Harry Pahanyayla, chairman of the Legal Commission of the BHC, were all allegedly denied permission to leave the country. Viasna, the BHC, the BAJ and Nasha Niva were among the subjects of an earlier communication (see A/HRC/19/44, case no BLR 7/2011). A/HRC/22/67 192 Date Type