A/HRC/44/50/Add.4 MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA REGION Algeria 103. JAL 30/03/2020 Case no: DZA 1∕2020 State reply: 20/04/2020 Allégations d’arrestation violente et de détention arbitraire de M. Slimane Hamitouche. 104. JAL 14/04/2020 Case no: DZA 3/2020 State reply: none to date La condamnation de M. Karim Tabbou, figure du mouvement Hirak. Egypt 105. JOL 28/02/2020 Case no: EGY 4/2020 State reply: 08/04/2020 Concerns about proposed amendments to the Terrorist Entities Law (Law 8 of 2015) and the Anti-Terrorism Law, (Law 94 of 2015), approved by the Parliament’s Legislative Committee on 10 February 2020, which toughen the penalties for terrorrelated crimes, expand the definition of financing of terrorism, and impose the death penalty on those found guilty of funding of terrorist groups and acts; concern at the extensive limitations on and criminalization of the exercise of fundamental rights in Egypt, in particular on the effect and application of The Right to Public Meetings, Processions and Peaceful Demonstrations Law No. 107/2013, amended on 27 April 2017, signed into law on 24 November 2013 and amended in 2017; the Law no.70/2017 on Associations and Other Foundations Working in the Field of Civil Work, signed into law in June 2017 and repealed in August 2019; and Law No. 149/2019, which regulates the activities of nongovernment organizations, ratified on 19 August 2019 and whose eighth article repealed the Association Law. The totality of these legislative enactments, and their inter-related and cumulative effects, have collective and corrosive effects on the promotion and protection of human rights. 106. JUA 31/03/2020 Case no: EGY 6/2020 State reply: none to date Continued arbitrary detention of journalists Mr. Mohamed Al-Yammani and Mr. Mohamed Badr whose charges have not been communicated by authorities, and the detention, torture and ongoing judicial harassment of human rights defender Mr. Patrick George Zaki. Iraq 107. JUA 13/01/2020 Case no: IRQ 6/2019 State reply: none to date Follow-up to JUA sent on 14 October regarding excessive use of force in popular protests. 108. JUA 13/02/2020 Case no: IRQ 1/2020 State reply: none to date Alleged arrest and subsequent detention of Mr. Idrees Saleem Mohammed Rozhbeani, a member of the Kurdistan Free Society of Movement. Mauritania 109. JUA 13/03/2020 Case no: MRT 1/2020 State reply: 24/04/2020 Allégations de détention de 15 personnes en raison de la tenue et de la participation à une réunion pacifique, dont MM. Mohamed Ould Hayda, Mohamed Ould Jedou, Ahmed Mohamed El Moctar, Mohamed Abarrahmane Haddad, Mohamed Ould Amar et {…} qui se trouvent actuellement en détention et risqueraient l’application de la peine de mort. State of Palestine 110. JAL 15/10/2019 Case no: PSE 3/2019 State reply: none to date The attack on Ms. Lara Kanan on 30 June 2018 and the failure of authorities to adequately investigate. Tunisia 25