Date Type Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted Reply UKR 5/2011 22/08/2011 Ukraine UA Health; 21/11/2011 Alleged reduction of the threshold amounts for criminal possession of illegal drugs in Ukraine. According to the information received, Ministry of Health Resolution No. 634 of 29 July 2010 reduced the legal thresholds for the criminal possession of illegal drugs. The threshold for acetylated opium, allegedly the most widely-used illegal injected drug in Ukraine, was reportedly reduced by a factor of 20, such that anyone found possessing between 0.005 and 1 gram of the substance is liable to criminal prosecution. Allegedly, criminalizing the possession of small quantities of illegal drugs will endanger needle/syringe exchange programmes by implicating those who collect or return used syringes containing residue amounts of illegal drugs. Reportedly, the changes will make it more difficult for health and social services to reach drug users, undermining HIV prevention, care and treatment, drug dependency treatment, and other health services. CHL 4/2011 23/08/2011 Chile JUA Freedom of expression; Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Torture; 26/10/2011 Alegaciones de uso desproporcionado de la fuerza y detención de manifestantes. Según las 15/11/2011 informaciones recibidas, durante los dos últimos meses, estudiantes de secundaria y universitarios habrían estado realizando diversas marchas de protesta. El 4 de agosto de 2011 se habrían llevado a cabo protestas en la ciudad de Santiago y en otras doce ciudades del país. La policía y cuerpos de seguridad del Estado habrían respondido con un uso excesivo de la fuerza. Más de 500 personas habrían sido detenidas, muchas de los cuales habrían sido menores de edad. De igual forma, 14 estudiantes y un centenar de policías habrían resultado heridos. Un estudiante de sociología de la Universidad Arcis en Valparaíso, el Sr. Daniel Pantoja Quiroz, habría sido detenido y golpeado por diez policías de las “fuerzas especiales” cuando éste se encontraba en la vía pública. LKA 4/2011 23/08/2011 Sri Lanka JUA Disappearances; Freedom of expression; Human rights defenders; Summary executions; Alleged threats against those campaigning for justice following the killing of a human rights defender. According to the information received on 11 February 2010, Mr. Pattani Razeek, a human rights defender and a founding member and managing trustee of the Community Trust Fund (CTF) in Puttalam, was abducted. The main suspect was reportedly arrested over a year later following a signatory campaign organised by Mr. Razeek‟s family, the Mosque Committee and local civil society groups. Following information received from a suspect, the body of Mr. Razeek was reportedly exhumed and identified. After Mr. Razeek‟s disappearance, individuals campaigning for justice in the case, including his family members, were reportedly subjected to harassment and threatened on numerous occasions. In May 2010, members of his family and a CTF Trustee received death threats. A/HRC/19/44 65