Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted BHR 15/2014 19/12/2014 Bahrain JUA Arbitrary detention; Freedom of expression; Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Human rights defenders; Allegations of the sentencing of three human rights defenders linked to their peaceful activities advocating for human rights. According to the information received, on 1 December 2014, Ms. Maryam Al-Khawaja, Director of the Gulf Centre for Human Rights, was sentenced in absentia to one year imprisonment on charges of assaulting security officers. Her sister, Ms. Zainab Al-Khawaja, also a human rights activist, was sentenced on 4 December 2014 to three years in prison and, five days later, to an additional 16 months on charges of “destruction of government property” for having torn up a photograph of the King of Bahrain. Ms. Ghada Jamhseer, Head of Women’s Petition Committee, a human rights defenders network, was arrested on 15 September 2014 on defamation charges reportedly in connection with messages that she posted on social media criticizing alleged corruption in the management of the King Hamad Hospital in Bahrain. She was kept in detention until 27 November 2014, when she was briefly released before being arrested again on assault charges. Ms. Zainab AlKhawaja and Ms. Maryam Al-Khawaja were the subject of two previous communications sent on 30 July 2013, see A/HRC/25/74, case no. BHR 4/2013; and on 3 September 2014, see A/HRC/28/85, case no. BHR 12/2014. PAK 16/2014 19/12/2014 Pakistan JUA Summary executions; Terrorism; Torture; Allegations concerning violations of the right to life in relation to removal of the unofficial moratorium on the death penalty in Pakistan. According to the information received, in response to the 16 December 2014 attack carried out by the Pakistan Taliban in Peshawar, which led to the death of 148 people, the Government announced the removal of the de facto moratorium on the death penalty for nonmilitary personnel. This moratorium had been in place since 2008. As a result, hundreds of people charged under anti-terrorism laws are at risk of being executed. Grave concern is expressed at the decision of the Government to lift the de facto moratorium on the death penalty in Pakistan, which, if confirmed, would depart from the worldwide trend on abolition of the death penalty. Reply 02/01/2015 A/HRC/29/50 26 Date Type