Date
Type
Case No
Country
Mandate(s)
Summary of the allegation transmitted
Reply
BHR 12/2011
16/06/2011 Bahrain
JUA
Freedom of
expression;
Freedom of
peaceful
assembly and of
association;
Human rights
defenders;
Torture;
Allegations of acts of violence, intimidation, and the enactment of travel bans against, as well as 02/09/2011
the interrogation of, a number of human rights defenders. According to the information received, 29/08/2011
Mr. Nabeel Rajab, President of the Bahraini Centre for Human Rights and Vice-President of the
International Federation for Human Rights, was attacked on 21 May 2011 at his home by
members of the security forces. On 22 May 2011, Mr. Abdulla Al-Derazi, Secretary General of
the Bahrain Human Rights Society, was allegedly ordered by the Office of the Military
Prosecution to present himself for interrogation at its offices, where he was interrogated about his
human rights work. Mr. Rajab, Mr. Issa Al-Ghayeb, Deputy Secretary General of the Bahrain
Human Rights Society; and Mr. Issa Ibrahim, lawyer and board member of the Bahrain Human
Rights Society have allegedly been prevented from travelling outside the country. Mr.
Mohammed Al-Tajir, a human rights lawyer, was reportedly brought before the Bahraini Lower
National Safety Court in Manama following a five-week period of incommunicado detention.
Mr. Al-Tajir was allegedly forced to confess. On 13 June 2011, following a trial which began on
2 June 2011, Ms. Ayat Al-Gormezi, a 20-year old student and poet, was allegedly sentenced by a
special security tribunal on anti-State charges. Ms. Al-Gormezi was reportedly hospitalized as a
result of severe ill-treatment in the weeks following her arrest.
ISR 6/2011
16/06/2011 Israel
AL
Indigenous
peoples;
Follow-up to a communication sent on 1 February 2011 regarding alleged on-going demolitions 15/08/2011
of “unrecognized” Bedouin villages in the Negev desert and the relocation of their inhabitants to
Government-planned villages, containing the Special Rapporteur‟s observations on the case. (See
A/HRC/18/35.Add.1).
THA 6/2011
16/06/2011 Thailand
AL
Indigenous
peoples;
11/07/2011
Follow-up to a communication sent on 17 December 2010 regarding the exhumation of Hmong
graves at Wat Tham Krabok in December 2005 and the alleged ongoing harm experienced by the
relatives of the deceased Hmong individuals whose graves were exhumed, containing the Special
Rapporteur‟s observations on the case (see A/HRC/18/35/Add.1).
A/HRC/19/44
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