Date Type Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted Reply USA 5/2015 24/03/2015 United States JAL of America Summary executions; Terrorism; Torture; 02/09/2015 Alleged unlawful killings resulting from an air strike involving the use of an armed drone belonging to the authorities of the United States of America. According to the information received, on 26 January 2015, Mr. Abdullah Khaled Aziz Al-Zendan - a local farmer -, a 13-year-old boy and an unidentified male were killed as a result of a drone strike conducted in the Huraib area, Mareb Governorate, Yemen. The drone allegedly belonged to the authorities of the United States of America. It is further reported that, as a result of an earlier drone strike in October 2011, in the Shabwah Governorate, the 16-year-old brother and the father, Mr. Saleh Qaid Teayman, of the above-mentioned 13-year-old boy, were killed. Another brother of the 13-year-old-boy, Mr. Ezuldeen Saleh Taeyman, was severely injured in 2013 as a result of another drone strike. Reportedly, to date, no investigation has been initiated into any of these incidents and no reparation has been provided to the victims or their families. A communication with the same content has been sent to the Government of Yemen on 24 March 2015, see below, case no. YEM 1/2015. AUS 3/2015 27/03/2015 Australia JUA Disability; Health; Torture; 27/11/2015 Alleged ill-treatment and lack of adequate medical care of a prisoner with mental disabilities at Yalata Labour Prison. According to the information received, Mr. X, a 29year-old United States citizen, has been subjected to ill-treatment and has not received adequate mental health care in detention. In 2008, when living in Adelaide, he was found not guilty for the crime of attempted homicide for reason of mental impairment, and was ordered by the court to be transferred to the State’s highest-security mental health hospital, James Nash House, for a 13 year period. After nine months, in September 2009, officials at James Nash House transferred Mr. X to the Yatala Labour Prison, reportedly due to a lack of capacity for dealing with patients with “personality disorders”. At Yatala Labour Prison, Mr. X reportedly remained in solitary confinement for five years and a half, until January 2015. He is confined to his cell for 23 hours a day with only one onehour break where he is placed in a cagelike structure outdoors rather than the open yard. It is also reported that Mr. X has repeatedly been subjected to additional punitive measures, including handcuffing regimes (for nearly one year), and loud music blasting into his cell for four hours. A/HRC/31/79 179