Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted Reply IRN 10/2013 05/07/2013 Iran (Islamic JUA Republic of) Arbitrary detention; Freedom of expression; Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Human rights defenders; Independence of judges and lawyers; Iran; Torture; 18/12/2013 Alleged arbitrary arrest and detention of Messrs. Khosro Kordpour, Massoud Kordpour, Ms Jamileh Karimi, Messrs. Ashkan Zahabian, Afshin Keshtkari and Mahmoud Beheshti Langroudi, in the lead to the President elections of 14 June 2013. According to the information received, Messrs Khosro and Massoud Kordpour, both journalists, were arrested in early March by officials from the Ministry of Intelligence. At the time of writing, they were allegedly held in a Revolutionary Guards detention center in Orumiyeh. Political and student activists, Ms Karimi, and Messrs. Zahabian and Keshtkari were also arrested by security forces on 10 April, 27 May and 18 May 2013 respectively. Furthermore, Mr Mahmoud Beheshti Langroudi, a former speaker of the Iran Teachers’ Trade Association, was allegedly arrested in April 2010 and convicted to five years in prison on charges of gathering and colluding against the national security and spreading propaganda against the system on 28 May 2013. MKD 2/2013 05/07/2013 The former JUA Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Human rights defenders; Racism; Allegations of on-going harassment of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) rights defenders. According to the information received, on 22 June 2013, a group of masked individuals attacked a centre in support of LGBTI persons. On 5 July 2013, unidentified individuals climbed on the roof of the abovementioned LGBTI support centre and set the premises on fire, burning two square meters of the wooden roof construction. This attack reportedly occurred one day after ambassadors and representatives from the European Union, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the United States of America, Sweden and the Netherlands visited the centre to discuss the previous attack of 22 June 2013. UZB 1/2013 05/07/2013 Uzbekistan JAL Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Human rights defenders; Alleged denial of entry and deportation of human rights defender Ms Tolekan Ismailova, a Kyrgyz citizen, Director of the Human Rights Centre “Citizens Against Corruption” (CAC) in Kyrgyzstan, and FIDH Vice President. According to the information received, on 24 June 2013, Ms Ismailova was detained at the airport in Tashkent, denied entry into Uzbekistan, and deported the next day. The border police reportedly explained that Ms Ismailova was on a black list following her visit to Uzbekistan in 2009 and engagement with prominent human rights defenders in the country. 06/09/2013 A/HRC/25/74 34 Date Type

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