Date
Type
04/06/2012
JUA
04/06/2012
AL
05/06/2012
JUA
Case No
Mandate(s)
Summary of the allegation transmitted
Reply
KHM 4/2012
Cambodia
Adequate housing;
Arbitrary detention;
Cambodia; Freedom
of expression;
Freedom of peaceful
assembly and of
association; Freedom
of religion; Human
rights defenders;
Independence of
judges and lawyers;
Violence against
women;
Alleged arrests, charges and acts of coercion against human rights defenders
in relation to land disputes in Phnom Penh. According to the information
received, on 24 May 2012, thirteen women of Boeung Kak Lake community Kong Chantha, Tol Sreypov, Tep Vanny, Pov Sophea, Suong Samai, Pan
Chhunret, Heng Nom, Chan Navy, Po Davy, Nguon Kimleang, Song
Sreyleap, Chheng Leap and Nget Kun; were sentenced to up to two and a half
years‘ imprisonment after a summary trial by the Phnom Penh Court of First
Instance. The police allegedly arrested two other Boeung Kak representatives,
Ms. Ly Channary and Mr. Say Sareoun, who were waiting outside the
courthouse to testify. Venerable Loun Sovath reportedly participated in a
peaceful gathering in front of the court to express his solidarity with the
community and was forcibly taken away by police in plain clothes, gendarme
and military police, intervention police and monks to Botum Pagoda where
about 50 religious leaders questioned him over his activism.
GTM 4/2012
Guatemala
Indigenous peoples;
Seguimiento a una carta enviada el 14 de octubre de 2011 en relación con las 07/08/2012
alegaciones recibidas sobre las comunidades indígenas afectadas por el
proyecto de construcción de una planta cementera en el municipio de San
Juan Sacatepéquez, con observaciones y recomendaciones del Relator
Especial sobre el caso (Véase también A/HRC/19/44 y A/HRC/21/47.Add.3).
SDN 2/2012
Sudan
Arbitrary detention;
Discrimination
against women in law
and in practice;
Independence of
judges and lawyers;
Summary executions;
Torture; Violence
against women;
Alleged sentencing to death by stoning for adultery. According to information
received, on May 13 2012, the criminal court of Ombada in Khartoum, central
Sudan, sentenced Ms. Intisar Sharif Abdallah, 20 years old and mother of
three children, to death by stoning based on charges of adultery, under article
146 of Sudan‘s criminal code of 1991. It is reported that although she had
initially pleaded not guilty, she admitted to the charges at a later hearing, after
reportedly being beaten by her brother. The conviction was based solely on
this testimony. It is reported that during the trial, Ms. Sharif Abdallah did not
have access to a lawyer, nor an interpreter, despite the fact that she has a
limited knowledge of Arabic, while the man co-accused of the same charges
was simply released after denying them. Ms. Sharif Abdallah is reportedly
being detained with her youngest son, who is four months old, while her two
other children are in the care of her family.
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A/HRC/22/67
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