Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted Reply BGD 12/2013 31/10/2013 Bangladesh JAL Indigenous peoples; Violence against women; 01/11/2013 Allegations of violence and other human rights abuses against tribal/ indigenous peoples. According to the information received, members of indigenous peoples of the Chittagong Hill Tracts have experienced murders, harassment, intimidation, religious persecution and sexual violence against indigenous women and children. Allegedly, this violence is linked to land disputes that originate from Government policies that have promoted the migration of Bengali citizens to settle in the Chittagong Hill Tracts over the course of several decades in order to alter the demographic composition of the region. It is reported that the Chittagong Hill Tracts Accord of 1997, providing for the recognition of the Chittagong Hills Tracts as a “tribal inhabited region”, the promotion of indigenous cultures, customary laws and rights to customary lands and natural resources, which brought an end to an armed insurgency that arose in the 1970s had not been implemented. UZB 4/2013 31/10/2013 Uzbekistan JAL Freedom of expression; Human rights defenders; Alleged arrest and administrative detention of an independent journalist. According to the information received, Mr Sergei Naumov, who reported on a variety of human rights issues including labour conditions in the cotton fields, was allegedly arrested on 21 September 2013, by local police officers at his home in the city of Urgench. He was held in detention for 12 days under Article 183 of the Administrative Code of Uzbekistan (“Disorderly conduct and disturbing the peace”) for harassment after an incident on the street with a woman. Contrary to the claim by the authorities that they had no record of him in detention, his lawyer reportedly learned on 24 September 2013 that Mr Naumov was being held in the Urgench temporary detention facility. It is further reported that the administrative detention may be linked to his journalistic activities reporting on the use of forced labour in the cotton industry, including that of children, during the harvest season. He was released on 3 October 2013 following a summary trial during which he had no legal representation. A/HRC/25/74 114 Date Type