Case No
Country
Mandate(s)
Summary of the allegation transmitted
USA 8/2015
17/04/2015 United States
JAL
of America
Independence of
judges and
lawyers;
Terrorism;
USA 10/2015
30/04/2015 United States
JAL
of America
African descent; Allegations of racial discrimination against people of African descent and lack of access
Health;
to appropriate medical treatment whilst in detention. According to the information
Torture;
received, Mr. Mumia Abu-Jamal (born Wesley Cook), a 61-year-old Afro-American
detainee in State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy, Pennsylvania, has not had access
to appropriate medical treatment while in detention. As a consequence his health
situation has deteriorated over the past few months resulting in his admission to the
intensive care unit (ICU) of a nearby clinic on 30 March 2015 in diabetic shock. It is
alleged that as he had three "comprehensive" blood tests since February 2015, diabetes
should have been diagnosed and treated accordingly. Instead his medical condition was
reportedly ignored by the prison guards. Mr. Abu-Jamal was allegedly detained
following an unfair trial which found him guilty of murder of a police officer in 1981.
He is reportedly serving a life sentence without parole and has not been given a resentencing hearing in violation of Pennsylvania constitutional and statutory law. During
his years in detention he has been active in writing about racial discrimination in the
criminal justice system and advocating for justice and the rights of his fellow detainees.
Reply
17/08/2015
Alleged denial of the right to know the truth to the relatives of the victims killed in the
terrorist attacks on the island of Bali on 12 October 2002. According to the information
received, the prolonged detention in Guantanamo Bay of an Indonesian national who is
believed to be the operations chief of the South East Asian Islamic militant group
Jemaah Islamiah, reportedly involved in the planning of the so-called Bali bombings,
results in the impossibility to obtain justice for Ms. Susanna Miller, Mr. Matthew
Arnold, and Mrs. Maggie Stephens, who all lost a close family member in the bombings.
A copy of this communication was addressed to the Government of Indonesia for
information.
24/06/2015
11/09/2015
A/HRC/31/79
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