Date Type Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted Reply MMR 6/2013 02/05/2013 Myanmar JUA Arbitrary detention; Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Human rights defenders; Myanmar; Torture; 01/07/2013 Alleged excessive use of force by riot police and military to remove farmers from land around Letpadaung copper mine in Sagaing Region, Myanmar, and reported charges and detention of persons involved in a protest at the site. According to information received, around 100 riot police and 50 soldiers arrived at the site to remove dozens of farmers who had refused compensation from the owners of the Letpadaung cooper mine (a Chinese state owned company and a military owned company). Farmers were reportedly beaten with batons and had rubber bullets fired at them by police and military, resulting in injuries to 10 of the farmers. Subsequently, the commander of the Sagaing Region Police Foce reportedly announced that charges would be lodged against six members of the Yangon People's Support Network: Ko Aung Soe, Ba Htoo, Thar Kyi, Ko Latt, Thaw Zin and Ko Thu, as well as Han Win Aung of the Political Prisoners Families' Beneficial Network and Thaung Taik Oo of the Yangon Institute of Technology Students Union. Aung Soe along with two other demonstrators are reportedly already being detained at Nyaungbingyi Police Station. SWE 2/2013 02/05/2013 Sweden JUA Freedom of expression; Human rights defenders; Summary executions; Torture; 14/06/2013 Alleged imminent deportation of a journalist asylum-seeker, who would be at risk of being tortured and killed by the Taliban, if forcibly returned to Afghanistan. According to the information received, Mr Saif Ur Rahman Shirzad was forced to flee to Pakistan in 2008 after receiving death threats from the Taliban due to his journalistic activities. He applied for asylum in Sweden on 18 April 2011, but the application was rejected on 14 December 2011. The appeal was rejected on 15 November 2012. Mr Shirzad, along with his brother Mr Noor Rahman Shirzad, had reported on the Afghan-Pakistan border region, which put himself and his family at risk and under death threats by the Taliban. It is reported that his family received protection and were relocated to the United States of America by the UNHCR in 2009, and his brother has been granted asylum in Sweden. At the moment of preparing this communication, Mr Shirzad had not yet been deported. However, he could be deported at any moment. A/HRC/25/74 163