21/06/2012 AL 22/06/2012 JAL 22/06/2012 JAL Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted USA 8/2012 Torture; United States of America Alleged prolonged solitary confinement at the State Correctional Institution (SCI) in Greene, Pennsylvania. According to the information received Mr. Russel Maroon Shoats, 68-year old, has spent the last twenty-one years in solitary confinement within the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC). It is reported that he has not violated prison rules, and has not been issued any misconducts in more than two decades. It is reported that despite his impeccable record, prison authorities continue to hold him in 23-24 hour lockdown at the State Correctional Institution (SCI) Greene based on acts that occurred more than thirty years ago. EGY 7/2012 Egypt Alleged arbitrary restrictions on associations to receive foreign funding. According to the information received, some human rights associations, including the New Woman Foundation and the Center for Egyptian Women Legal Assistance (CEWLA), have been facing arbitrary prohibition or unjustified delay in receiving funding from abroad. The restrictions have had serious implications on the work carried out by the concerned associations, which had to drastically reduce their activities. ISR 8/2012 Israel Discrimination against women in law and in practice; Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Human rights defenders; Violence against women; Migrants; Racism; Allegation of incidents of racially motivated violence and attacks against migrants of African origin, and inflammatory and xenophobic statements made in this context against migrants by senior Israeli State officials. According to information received several demonstrations against African migrants, including Sudanese, were held across Israel. During the demonstrations several migrants of African origin were attacked and abused. Cases of serious assaults against sub-Saharan Africans, including firebombs thrown into residences and a nursery, the beating of a hotel employee, setting fire to an apartment where Eritrean and Ethiopian migrants were living, as well as the use of clubs and pepper spray in some of the attacks, were reported. Information received also indicates that high ranking Israeli State officials, including the Prime Minister, the Minister of Interior and Members of Knesset have made statements against migrants and characterized African migrants in abusive ways. Reply A/HRC/22/67 24 Date Type