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. 55 A/HRC/21/49 Mandate(s)

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