Date Type 16/10/2012 UA 17/10/2012 JUA 17/10/2012 JUA Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted Reply USA 27/2012 Summary executions; Alleged imposition of the death penalty in violation of due process United States of guarantees. According to the information received, Mr. Anthony Haynes, an America African American man, has been sentenced to death for the murder of an offduty police officer in 1999 in Houston, Texas when he was 19 years old. No expert testimony was presented as evidence to the jurors in order to mitigate effects of youth. The failure of the court-appointed lawyer to raise in state appeals the claim of poor legal representation at trial barred such issues from federal judicial review. It has been reported that during the trial in 1999, the prosecution utilized ―peremptory strikes‖ to dismiss four of the six prospective African American jurors without being required to give explicit reasons. In 2009, the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled that Anthony Haynes should get a new trial. However, the US Supreme Court sent the case back to the Fifth Circuit which upheld the death sentence despite acknowledging the persuasive value of circumstantial indications of intentional racial discrimination in the case. Freedom of expression; Human rights defenders; Violence against women; 29/11/2012 Supuestas amenazas de muerte contra dos periodistas. Según las informaciones recibidas, el 1 de octubre de 2012, un artículo titulado ―Día del 20/12/2012 Niño‖ fue publicado por la periodista y defensora de los derechos humanos Sra. Carolina Vásquez Araya en la Prensa Libre, en el que denuncio la violación de hijas de trabajadores agrícolas por los administradores o propietarios de fincas. Durante los días que siguieron a la publicación de dicho artículo, la Sra. Vásquez Araya recibió varias amenazas de muerte por correo electrónico. El 5 de octubre de 2012, el periodista y radiodifusor el Sr. Jorge Jacobs habría denunciado en directo que él y su familia fueron víctimas de amenazas de muerte, después de haber publicado una columna el día anterior en la Prensa Libre. El artículo, titulado ―Pepsi bye?‖, trataba de una posible adquisición de una empresa de bebidas carbonatadas por un grupo regional. JOR 2/2012 Jordan Disappearances; Torture; Alleged forcible return to Jordan and imminent threat of torture. According to 18/01/2013 the information received, Mr. Ashraf Mohammad Yousef Abdulsalam was arrested and tortured at the GID headquarters in Amman, Jordan in 2010. He later joined his family and took residence in Bahrain. On 25 September 2012, he was arrested in Bahrain and allegedly forcibly returned to Jordan without further information being provided to his family on his fate or whereabouts in spite of requests thereof. A/HRC/22/67 123 GTM 7/2012 Guatemala