A/HRC/35/23/Add.2 III. Tabulation (B) of cases transmitted to States concerning alleged violations of death penalty safeguards 23. Because of the urgency of the cases brought to her attention, the Special Rapporteur sends many communications concerning the unlawful application of the death penalty. 24. In its resolution 17/5, the Human Rights Council requested the Special Rapporteur in carrying out her mandate “[t]o continue to monitor the implementation of existing international standards on safeguards and restrictions relating to the imposition of capital punishment, bearing in mind the comments made by the Human Rights Committee in its interpretation of article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, as well as the Second Optional Protocol thereto”. In this respect, the Special Rapporteur has included the following table on the status of individuals who were the subject of concern with regard to the application of the death penalty in the present report. She urges all concerned States to provide updated information on the status of the subjects of these urgent appeals. 25. Tabulation (B) provides details on the 31 cases transmitted to Governments with regards to alleged violations of death penalty safeguards, including identity of the individuals concerned, the charges brought against them, the alleged violations of death penalty safeguards, and an update on the current situation of those individuals (i.e. whether executions have taken place or not). A. Violations alleged 26. In Tabulation (B) of cases transmitted to States concerning alleged violations of death penalty safeguards, the violations are classified into the following categories: (a) Fair trial concerns. (b) Not “most serious crimes”. (c) Extraction of confession under torture / duress (d) Juvenile at time of offense. (e) Execution of a person with intellectual or psychosocial disability. (f) Mandatory imposition of the death penalty (g) Imposition of the death penalty by Federal Government for facts that occurred in abolitionist state. (h) Assistance of abolitionist State in the investigation of crimes that may result in the imposition of the death penalty in another State. 23