Date
Type
Case No
Country
Summary of the allegation transmitted
Reply
IRN 17/2010
24/06/2010 Iran (Islamic
JUA
Republic of)
Summary
executions; Torture;
Violence against
women;
28/03/2011
Alleged imminent execution of a woman sentenced to death by stoning for
16/07/2012
committing adultery. According to the information received, Ms MohammadiAshtiani was initially sentenced on 15 May 2006 by a court in the city of Osku in
the North West Iranian province of East Azerbaijan for the crime of having “illicit
relations” with two men. She was sentenced to 99 lashes. On 10 September 2006, a
second charge relating to the same offence was brought against Ms MohammadiAshtiani and she was charged with the offence of adultery before the Sixth Branch
of the Penal Court of East Azerbaijan Province. Ms Mohammadi-Ashtiani denied
the charge and according to information received, no relevant evidence was
admitted against her and she was convicted solely on the basis of the judge‟s
opinion that she had committed adultery. She was subsequently sentenced to death
by stoning.
CHL 2/2010
16/09/2010 Chile
UA
Indigenous peoples;
Supuesta huelga de hambre por presos mapuche. Según la información recibida, 34 23/09/2010
personas mapuche en diversos centros de la región del Bío Bío y la Araucanía
estarían participando en una huelga de hambre desde el 12 de julio de 2010. Los
presos mapuche en huelga de hambre habrían demandado al Estado el término de
la aplicación de la ley antiterrorista en causas que les involucran, el término del
procesamiento de presos mapuche por la justicia militar, la desmilitarización de las
zonas mapuche, y la restitución de tierras ancestrales mapuche. 58 personas
mapuche o simpatizantes al pueblo mapuche habrían sido procesadas o condenadas
bajo la ley antiterrorista por hechos de protesta vinculados a la reivindicación de
derechos por tierras o de derechos políticos. Véase las observaciones del Relator
Especial sobre esto caso en A/HRC15/37.Add.1, parras 145-165 y la carta de
seguimiento enviada por el Relator Especial el 5 de octubre de 2010.
SAU 2/2011
22/03/2011 Saudi Arabia
JUA
Arbitrary detention; Alleged detention of protesters. According to the information received, on 4 March 24/07/2012
Freedom of
2011, Mr. Muhammad al-Wad„ani, a 25 year-old teacher, was arrested in Riyadh
expression; Torture; by men in plain clothes, allegedly members of the General Intelligence, while
participating in a protest. Other individuals who participated in the protest were
allegedly also arrested. Reportedly, 24 men were detained on 3 and 4 March in
connection with protests in the city of al-Qatif. They were subsequently released
on 8 March 2011, without charge and allegedly only after having signed a pledge
not to protest again. Mr. al-Wad„ani reportedly continued to be detained
incommunicado, and is believed to be at risk of torture or ill-treatment.
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