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
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