18/08/2015 AL 18/08/2015 JAL Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted BRA 5/2015 Brazil Slavery; Letter concerning legislative developments in Brazil regarding the concept of slave labour and the register of employers caught using slave labour (i.e. “dirty list”). While acknowledging the exemplary programmes and policies that the Government has put in place to combat contemporary forms of slavery, the letter calls upon Brazil to uphold the standard it has set, including by not reducing the current legal definition of slave labour and by re-publishing the “dirty list”. MYS 3/2015 Malaysia Freedom of expression; Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Alleged violations of the rights to freedom of expression and freedom of peaceful assembly in Malaysia, including the blocking of the website “Sarawak Report” and harassment of its journalists, as well as the suspension of two other news outlets and arrest of peaceful protestors. According to the information received, on 19 July 2015, the Malaysian Communication and Multimedia Commission allegedly blocked the “Sarawak Report”, an independent news blog, after it had reportedly published documents alleging a financial scandal involving the Malaysian Prime Minister and the State-owned development firm “1Malaysia Development Berhad”. On 4 August 2015, Malaysian authorities issued an arrest warrant for Ms. Clare Rewcastle-Brown, a British journalist who is the founder and editor of the Sarawak Report, pursuant to sections 124B and 124I of the Penal Code and are now reportedly pressing for Ms. Rewcastle-Brown to be placed on Aseanapol and Interpol Red Notice Wanted Lists. Concern is expressed at the use of the Sedition Act of 1948 to arrest, detain and charge human rights activists, for exercising their rights to freedom of expression and freedom of peaceful assembly in Malaysia. Reply A/HRC/31/79 78 Date Type