Date Type Case No Country CZE 1/2011 19/09/2011 Czech AL Republic Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted Minority issues; Alleged racially motivated actions against Roma in the Czech Republic. According to the information received, in July, August and September 2011, several racially motivated actions, including demonstrations, unauthorized marches and rallies, had been undertaken against Roma by ethnic Czechs in the towns of Rumburk, Varnsdorf, Novy Bor, and Sluknov. These allegedly included arson attacks against Romani people living in Býchory and Krty. Following two incidents on 7 and 21 August, involving firstly Romani customers of a gaming room in Nový Bor and secondly 18 Roma who reportedly beat up six ethnic Czechs, there was allegedly a wave of demonstrations against “Romani crime” in North Bohemia. Incidents reportedly included four ethnic Czechs brutally beating up an innocent Romani man, local authorities in the region reportedly making public statements thereby worsening public sentiment about Roma, local residents and right-wing extremists undertaking unauthorised anti-Roma marches, shouting antiRomani racist slogans, calling for violence against the Roma, destroying fences around two Romani houses, non-Romani neighbours threatening one Romani family with murder and targeting local residential hotels with Romani tenants. USA 18/2011 Indigenous 19/09/2011 United States peoples; AL of America IRN 12/2011 20/09/2011 Iran (Islamic JUA Republic of) Reply Follow-up concerning the ceremonial and burial site Sogorea Te. According to the information 22/11/2011 received, Sogorea Te, now located within the city of Vallejo, California, had been in existence for 3,500 years and has been used continually by the Northern California indigenous peoples, who consider this site sacred. Allegedly, the City of Vallejo had planned to level and pave over the Sogorea Te Sacred Area in order to construct a parking lot and public restrooms. In his letter, the Special Rapporteur transmitted new information received that the Yocha Dehe and Cortina tribes of California have negotiated a cultural easement and settlement agreement with the City of Vallejo and the Greater Vallejo Recreation District. The cultural easement guarantees that the Yocha Dehe and Cortina tribes will have legal oversight in all activities taking place on the sacred burial grounds of Sogorea Te/Glen Cove. This information is a positive development in the case, with the expectation that authorities will adhere to the agreement. See the Special Rapporteur‟s original communication on the issue in A/HRC/18/51, USA 5/2011. 81 A/HRC/19/44 Independence of Alleged execution by public hanging and sentenced to public lashing of minors. According to the judges and information received, despite the accused‟s testimony and although his legal representative lawyers; Iran; pleaded self-defence, the First Chamber of Karaj‟s Provincial Criminal Court, on or around 20 August 2011, sentenced Mr. Alizera Molla-Soltani , aged 17, to public hanging for intentional homicide. On or around 11 September 2011, the Supreme Court upheld his death sentence. X and Y, respectively aged 17 and 18, present the night of the incident, were sentenced to 80 strokes each.