20/11/2015 JUA 20/11/2015 JAL Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted Reply ISR 8/2015 Israel Adequate housing; Health; Independence of judges and lawyers; OPT; 18/01/2016 Alleged imminent forced eviction of a Palestinian family in East Jerusalem, Occupied Palestinian Territory. According to information received, on 11 October 2015, an Israeli District Court upheld a Magistrate’s Court decision of 14 September 2014 to issue an eviction order against the Ghaith-Sub Laban family following a petition by an Israeli settler organization. The Magistrate, herself a settler, accepted the claim of the settler organization that the family, who holds protected tenancy status and continues to live in the property, had abandoned the house and lost their protected status. Since June 2015, the National Insurance Institute stopped the family’s social benefits, including their medical insurance. The forced eviction is set for 30 November 2015, although a temporary injunction against the eviction was granted 18 November 2015 pending further decision by the High Court. Concerns are raised that the forced eviction would violate the right to adequate housing, rights of due process and procedural fairness and provisions under international humanitarian law. The alleged forced eviction against the Ghaith-Sub Laban family was the subject of an earlier communication sent on 30 April 2015, see A/HRC/30/27, case no. ISR 1/2015. PAK 11/2015 Pakistan Arbitrary detention; Disappearances; Terrorism; Alleged incompatibility of a number of provisions of the Protection of Pakistan Act with international human rights standards. According to the information received, relevant provisions in the Protection of Pakistan Act (PPA) provide security forces involved in the fight against terrorism in Pakistan, including the Army, Frontier Corps, Police and Rangers, with the authority to make arrests without warrants, order preventive detention without adequate safeguards, including in some cases secret detention, and retroactively apply the law to legitimize illegal detentions. The PPA also grants immunity to law enforcement officers who might be responsible for serious human rights violations such as arbitrary detention and enforced disappearance. A/HRC/31/79 154 Date Type

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