Date Type 12/08/2015 JUA 12/08/2015 JUA Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted IND 8/2015 India Arbitrary detention; Environment; Freedom of expression; Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Human rights defenders; Alleged arbitrary arrest and detention of two women human rights defenders. According to the information received, the All India Union of Forest Working People (AIUFWP) had planned a large protest against forcible land acquisition in Sonbhadra and the prosecution of peaceful activists for 30 June 2015. At approximately 6.10 a.m. of that day, around 20 armed police officers of the Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh district, forcibly entered the house of Ms. Roma Mallik, the General Secretary of AIUFWP. Ms. Mallik and Ms. Sukalo Gond, a national committee member of AIUFWP who was present at Ms. Mallik’s house, were subsequently arrested and brought to the office of the Superintendent of Police in Sonbhadra. They were reportedly questioned about AIUFWP and their individual human rights activities. They are currently detained in Mirzapur Jail on judicial remand for further investigation into multiple allegations against them, including serious crimes punishable by up to life imprisonment. IRN 13/2015 Iran (Islamic Republic of) Arbitrary detention; Freedom of expression; Human rights defenders; Iran; Torture; Alleged arbitrary detention of a journalist for having exercised his rights to freedom of opinion and expression; freedom of association and political participation, and violation of his right to due process of law. According to the information received, Mr. Jason Rezaian, a double national from the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States of America, and Washington Post’s correspondent in Tehran, was arrested on 22 July 2014 at his home, by agents of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. The Revolutionary Court has failed to publicly disclose the charges against him. His trial started ten months later, closed to the public and even Mr. Rezaian’s close relatives. He has had no opportunity to present witnesses or evidence in his defense; nor has he had any opportunity to examine and challenge witnesses and evidence against him. Mr. Rezaian has also been deprived of due process and denied his rights to legal counsel of his choosing as well as to consular visitation. The conditions at Evin Prison have resulted in a dramatic deterioration of Rezaian’s health. Mr. Rezaian was the subject of two previous communications sent on 4 June 2015, see above, case no. IRN 6/2015, and on 6 August 2014, see A/HRC/28/85, case no. IRN 16/2014. Reply A/HRC/31/79 71