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
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