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/31/79 182 Date Type