A/HRC/32/34 penalty. A dozen communications contained allegations of violations of the rights and independence of lawyers, which included killings, attacks, threats, intimidation, harassment and detention, as well as undue restrictions on their work. A few communications raised issues concerning undue pressures on prosecutors, and threats, attacks and intimidation directed against judges, as well as enforced disappearances and incommunicado detentions. 13. The Special Rapporteur wishes to underline that the above-mentioned communications exclusively reflect information that was transmitted to her and was subsequently acted upon. Complaints that contained insufficient information, that fell outside the scope of the mandate, or that the Special Rapporteur was not in a position to act upon owing to time, workload or other constraints, are not reflected in the numbers provided in the present report. Besides, problems regarding the independence and impartiality of the justice system are not limited to the States or entities to which communications were sent. Therefore, the fact that a particular State or entity may not have received a communication should not be interpreted as indicating that there are no challenges concerning the independence and impartiality of the judiciary and the administration of justice in that State or entity. 14. At the time of writing the present report, the overall reply rate for the communications sent by the Special Rapporteur was 42 per cent. The Special Rapporteur wishes to encourage States to reply promptly to all the communications that they receive and to address the specific violations and concerns identified therein in a meaningful way, in particular when the communications concern time-sensitive issues that may have irreversible consequences for people. 15. The Special Rapporteur used media releases to bring public attention to situations that she identified as particularly concerning. Excluding press releases and public statements related to her country visit, she issued a total of 10 media releases; 9 of those addressed specific country situations across regional groups and 1 focused on a particular theme related to the mandate. All 10 media releases were sent jointly with other special procedure mandate holders. C. Other activities 16. Shortly after she took up her duties, from 14 to 18 September 2015, the Special Rapporteur was in Geneva for a series of meetings and consultations. 17. On 15 September 2015, she participated as a moderator in a side event of the Human Rights Council entitled “Judges, lawyers, prosecutors and human rights: 30 years of UN action”. The event was convened by the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute and the International Commission of Jurists. It was co-sponsored by the Permanent Missions of Australia, Botswana, Hungary, Ireland and Thailand, and the Council of Europe, as well as by the Association for the Prevention of Torture, Avocats sans frontières, the Colombian Commission of Jurists, the Commonwealth Lawyers Association, the Commonwealth Magistrates and Judges Association, the International Legal Assistance Consortium, Judges for Judges, and Lawyers for Lawyers. 18. The side event commemorated the thirtieth anniversary of the Basic Principles on the Independence of the Judiciary,1 and the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Basic Principles 1 Adopted by the seventh United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, held in Milan, Italy, from 26 August to 6 September 1985, and endorsed in General Assembly resolutions 40/32 and 40/146. 5