Date Type 09/09/2015 JAL 09/09/2015 JAL Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted Reply LTU 1/2015 Lithuania Human rights defenders; Minority issues; Alleged denial of entry to Lithuania of a human rights and minority rights defender 17/12/2015 as well as two conference participants to attend an international roundtable on minority rights. According to the information received, on 24 August 2015, Mr. Aleksandrs Kuzmins, the secretary of the Latvian Human Rights Committee, travelled to Klaipeda, Lithuania, to represent his organization at the international roundtable entitled “Ethnic nationalism as a threat to peace and stability”. At around 5 p.m., at the Klaipeda bus station, Mr. Kuzmins was stopped by Lithuanian Border Guard officers and informed that the Lithuanian Migration Department based on a section of the law covering “threats to national security” refused him entry to the country until 20 August 2020. Mr. Kuzmins was ordered to leave Lithuania by midnight at the risk of being arrested. Two other participants of the conference, Mr. Aleksandrs Rzavinst and Mr. Joseph Koren, also coming from Latvia, were similarly refused entry to Lithuania. Grave concern is expressed that the denial of entry of Mr. Kuzmins, Mr. Rzavinst and Mr. Koren to Lithuania appears to be related to their human rights activities, including their advocacy on minority rights. THA 8/2015 Thailand Business enterprises; Freedom of expression; Human rights defenders; Migrants; Trafficking; 15/09/2015 Alleged indictment of a human rights defender based on false accusations. According to the information received, on 24 August 2015, Mr. Andy Hall was indicted by the Bangkok South Criminal Court on the basis of accusations of criminal defamation and computer crimes. The indictment follows from one of four complaints lodged against Mr. Hall by the Thai pineapple processing company, Natural Fruit Company. The complaints followed Mr. Hall’s contribution to a report published by the Finnish non-governmental organization Finnwatch in 2013, concerning labour rights violations at the Natural Fruit Company factory in Prachuap Khiri Khan Province. Mr. Hall was the subject of a previous communication sent on 26 April 2013, case number THA 4/2013, see A/HRC/24/21. A/HRC/31/79 101