Date Type 21/09/2012 JUA 21/09/2012 UA 25/09/2012 UA Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted SYR 8/2012 Syrian Arab Republic Arbitrary detention; Disappearances; Torture; Alleged incommunicado detention and torture of 31-year old man by Syrian security forces. According to the information received, on 15 March 2012, Mr. Bassel Khartabil, a 31-year old Palestinian who was born and raised in Syria, was arrested by Syrian security forces of the Kafr Sousseh Military Intelligence Branch as he left work in the al-Mezzeh district of Damascus. One week after his arrest, security forces reportedly took him to his home where they confiscated his computers and his files. Following inquiries by his family, the Kafr Sousseh Military Intelligence Branch allegedly confirmed the detention of Mr. Khartabil, without revealing his whereabouts, the reasons for his arrest or his state of health. According to the information received, Mr. Khartabil was last seen at the Military Intelligence Branch in Kafr Sousseh and had reportedly been tortured and ill-treated. Mr. Khartabil has allegedly not been allowed to communicate with his family and has been denied access to a lawyer. Reply USA 26/2012 Summary executions; Alleged imposition of the death penalty on a man suffering from psychosocial 16/11/2012 United States of disabilities. According to the information received, Mr. Terrance Williams, a America 46-year-old African American man, has been sentenced to death for a murder committed in 1984 when he was 18 years old. The victim, who had allegedly abused him during several years, was beaten to death. Moreover, Mr. Williams was also found guilty in a separate trial of third-degree murder, which does not carry the death penalty, for the killing of a 51-yers old man and an armed robbery when he was 16 years old. It has been reported that Mr Williams was physically abused by his mother and stepfather. Moreover, he was a victim of rape and sexual assault. According to the allegations received, he has been diagnosed with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). A clinical psychologist has underlined that the violence and abuse of Mr. Williams was so severe in his childhood that he suffers from severe and long lasting psychological damage. ISR 10/2012 Israel Health; A/HRC/22/67 105 Allegation that a Palestinian citizen who is critically ill has been denied permission to exit the West Bank to receive necessary treatment. According to the information received, Mr. Shadi Zuheir Naim Natsheh, Palestinian citizen, born 5 March 1989, and resident of Hebron, West Bank, Occupied Palestinian Territory, is critically ill with stomach cancer. He reportedly requires urgent medical care outside the West Bank and has allegedly been denied permission by the Israeli authorities to exit West Bank to receive such treatment abroad.