Date Type Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted PAK 8/2011 16/09/2011 Pakistan UA Summary executions; Alleged death sentence on drug trafficking charges. According to the information received, on 19 18/09/2011 March 2010, the Shanghai First Intermediate People‟s Court sentenced Mr. Syed Zahid Hussain 22/09/2011 Shah to death on drug trafficking charges. The verdict was upheld by the Shanghai High Court on 10 November 2010, and subsequently approved by the Supreme People‟s Court. The execution by lethal injection was scheduled for 21 September 2011. On 9 September 2011, his relatives held a press conference in Islamabad, Pakistan, during which they told reporters that his business partners had falsely implicated him in the case. It is further claimed that Mr. Hussain Shah had only received limited consular assistance. ZAF 2/2011 16/09/2011 South Africa JAL Torture; Alleged rape of sex worker by police while in detention. According to information received Ms. 19/10/2011 Violence against X, a sex worker residing in Plattekloof and Kensington, Cape Town, was arbitrarily detained and 31/01/2012 women; raped by three police officers at Woodstock Police Station in late October 2009. Ms. X was allegedly approached by two police officers who violently pushed her into in a South African Police Service van, injuring her forehead in the process. She was allegedly then taken to the police station where she was kept in crowded quarters without being informed of any of her rights nor being allowed to make a phone call. She was then allegedly taken to an isolated cell where she was verbally abused by three police-officers who forced her to perform oral sex and subjected her to vaginal rape in exchange for her release. Reportedly, one of the police-officers who raped her continued to harass her. Ms. X had allegedly not filed any formal complaint for fear of suffering. Reportedly, current legislation, which criminalizes sex work in South Africa, increases the vulnerability of sex workers to violence, as it further enhances their social stigmatization and discrimination. USA 16/2011 Torture; 16/09/2011 United States AL of America Reply 30/11/2011 Alleged widespread use of solitary confinement, including its prolonged and indefinite use and the imposition of solitary confinement on individuals with mental disabilities. According to the information received, solitary confinement is widely used in the prison system in the United States of America. Individuals subjected to solitary confinement are reportedly restrained to their cells at least 23 hours a day. Prolonged solitary confinement is allegedly used as a management strategy which may, in some cases, hold individuals in confinement cells for years or decades. Reportedly, individuals are kept under close surveillance with almost no human interaction as a consequence of the use of new technologies, such as Intercoms and video surveillance cameras. Moreover, many individuals with mental disabilities are allegedly held in solitary confinement in various prisons in the United States. A/HRC/19/44 79