Date Type Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted Reply TUR 5/2011 26/10/2011 Turkey JUA Arbitrary detention; Disappearances; Human rights defenders; 13/12/2011 Alleged arrest and harassment of human rights defenders working on issues related to enforced disappearances. According to the information received, on 4 October 2011, Mr. Kemal Aydin, Yakay-der‟s spokesperson, and Mr. Selahattin Tekin, a member of Yakay-der‟s Board Council, were arrested in Istanbul along with 96 other individuals. On 11 October 2011, Mr. Cemal Bektas, President of Yakay-der and brother of a disappeared person, was reportedly arrested when leaving Yakay-der‟s offices after returning to Istanbul from Diyarbakir, where he had been when his two colleagues were allegedly arrested. On 15 October 2011, Ms. Nahide Ormani, a member of the Mothers for Peace, was reportedly arrested in the District of Slopi. The members of Yakay-der and Mothers for Peace have reportedly been subjected to harassment from the authorities in the past. ZWE 5/2011 26/10/2011 Zimbabwe JUA Freedom of expression; Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Human rights defenders; Torture; Violence against women; Alleged arrest and detention of human rights defenders. According to the information received, on 21 September 2011, Ms. Jenni Williams, the national coordinator of Women in Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA), and Ms. Magodonga Mahlangu were arrested as they attempted to organize a peaceful march in Bulawayo to commemorate the International Day of Peace. Ten other women were reportedly also arrested but were later released without charge and have since filed a complaint against the police claiming that they were beaten and verbally insulted. The police allegedly violently dispersed the crowd and beat members of WOZA with batons, as a result of which over 20 members of WOZA required medical attention and one was hospitalized. On 23 September 2011, Ms. Williams and Ms. Mahlangu were reportedly refused bail and remanded in custody at Mlondolozi female prison in Bulawayo on allegedly fabricated charges of “theft” and “kidnapping”. They were reportedly released on bail on 4 October 2011. ALB 1/2011 28/10/2011 Albania JAL Summary executions; Trafficking; Alleged trafficking of Kosovo Albanians and Serbs for the purpose of removal of organs and sexual exploitation. According to the information received, between 100 and 300 people, predominantly Serbian men aged between 25 and 50, were abducted from Kosovo and taken to detention facilities in or near the towns of Kukes and Toropoje in northern Albania. Beginning in August 1999, some of the captives in the detention facility at Kukes, ranging between 24 and 100, were transferred to secondary detention facilities in central Albania and then to a makeshift clinic in the south of Burrel, Albania where they were killed and had their organs removed. In addition, a large number of women and girls were allegedly trafficked to work as prostitutes at different detention facilities and also at a house in Rripe, Albania. 22/12/2011 A/HRC/19/44 129

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