Date Type 18/07/2012 AL 19/07/2012 JAL Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted Reply USA 11/2012 Summary executions; Alleged killings of civilians during a military operation. According to the United States of information received, on 11 May 2012, in a region called Mosquitia in America Honduras, a military operation supported by four helicopters and two aircraft, carrying Honduran agents and Drug Enforcement Administration officials from the United States of America, intercepted a boat in which a group of civilians was traveling on the Patuca river in the Ahuas community (Department of Gracias a Dios). One of the helicopters opened fire on the boat which led to the death of four people: Ms. Candelaria Pratt Nelson; Mr. Emerson Martínez Henriquez; Ms. Juana Jackson Ambrocio; and a minor aged 14, and four others were wounded: Mr. Lucio Adán Nelson Queen; Ms. Hilda Rosa Lezama Kenreth; Mr. Melaño Olopio; and a minor aged 14. These facts are framed in the context of the anti-drug cooperation program that the Government of the United States of America supports together with the Government of Honduras. BRA 8/2012 Brazil Freedom of expression; Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Human rights defenders; Allegations of acts of harassment, intimidation and criminalization of activists and human rights defenders of the Movimento Xingu Vivo Para Sempre (MXVPS) in the context of the protests against the construction of a Hydroelectric Power Plant complex in Belo Monte, in the State of Pará. According to the information received, a conference entitled Xingu +23 was organized from 13 to 17 June by the MXVPS in the town of Santo Antonio to commemorate the 23 years of protest against the Belo Monte dam project. On 13 June, a judge decided against the organization of the event, finding Ms. Antônia Melo, Mr. Ruy Marques, Ms. Mônica Brito Soares and Mr. Lárazo José da Silva Verçosa, members of the MXVPS, responsible for trespassing, harassing or disturbing purported property. Following an alleged investigation of the activities of the Xingu +23 event, the civil police of the State of Pará issued an arrest warrant of 11 persons, including Ms. Antônia Melo, Mr. Ruy Marques, Father Alirio Bervian, Sisters Agnes and Flora Wenzel, Mr. Elio Alves, and Mr. Rafael Salazar. A/HRC/22/67 49

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