Date Type Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted USA 8/2013 Summary 11/06/2013 United States of executions; UA America Alleged imposition of the death penalty after proceedings which did not comply with international human rights law standards of fair trial and due process guarantees. According to the information received, Mr William Van Poyck, aged 58, was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in 1988. In 1990, the Florida Supreme Court ruled that there was insufficient evidence to find Mr Van Poyck guilty of firstdegree premeditated murder. However, reportedly, the Court said that Mr Van Poyck’s role in a crime, in which he should have known lethal force could be used, made the death sentence proportional. Reportedly, the appeal courts rejected the claim that Mr Van Poyck’s legal representation at trial was constitutionally inadequate. Allegedly, Mr Van Poyck has spent more than 25 years on death row. He was scheduled to be executed on 12 June 2013. On 3 June 2013, Mr Van Poyck’s lawyers petitioned the Florida Supreme Court in an attempt to win a stay of execution. Reportedly at the time of transmitting this communication the Court had not yet ruled on the petition. CHN 4/2013 Arbitrary 12/06/2013 China (People's detention; JUA Republic of) Freedom of expression; Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Human rights defenders; Allegations of sentencing of eight student protestors to prison terms following their participation in peaceful demonstrations in the Tibet Autonomous Region in November 2012. According to the information received, following a peaceful protest that called for, inter alia, equality among nationalities, and respect for and freedom to study the Tibetan language, the Gonghe County People’s Court, on 10 April 2013, handed down prison sentences to the following student protestors from the Tsolho Technical School for “illegally holding demonstration” and “causing harm to social stability”: Mr Sangye Bum was sentenced to four years in prison; Messrs Kunsang Bum, Lhaten and Jampa Tsering were sentenced to three years and six months in prison; Messrs Wangyal Tsering and Choekyong Kyap were sentenced to three years and three months in prison; and Messrs Tsering Tashi and Dola were sentenced to three years in prison. Reply 12/07/2013 A/HRC/25/74 19