Date Type Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted Reply OTH 7/2015 23/10/2015 Other JAL Adequate housing; Extreme poverty; Haiti; Health; Water and Sanitation; 25/02/2016 Letter sent in follow-up to the allegation letter transmitted to the United Nations Secretary General on 25 September 2014 concerning the cholera outbreak in Haiti in 2010. The letter expresses concern about the inability of the victims of the cholera outbreak to vindicate their rights and to obtain access to a remedy for the harms suffered to date. The letter urges the United Nations to provide the victims with access to a transparent, independent and impartial mechanism to review and decide on their claims in order to ensure adequate reparation. The first letter transmitted on 25 September 2014 is included in A/HRC/28/85, see case no. HTI 3/2014. IRN 16/2015 29/10/2015 Iran (Islamic JAL Republic of) Independence of judges and lawyers; Iran; Summary executions; Torture; Allegations concerning the execution of a Kurdish man on charges of moharebeh (enmity against God) in Iran. On 26 August 2015, Mr. Behrouz Alkhani, a 30-year-old Kurdish man, was executed while awaiting the outcome of a Supreme Court appeal. He had reportedly been held in solitary confinement without access to a lawyer for over a year prior to his execution. Mr. Alkhani was arrested in January 2010 in West Azerbaijan and, in 2011, convicted and sentenced to death on charges of “effective collaboration with PJAK” (Party of Free Life of Kurdistan) and “enmity against God (moharebeh) for his alleged role in the assassination of the Prosecutor of Khoy, in the West Azerbaijan province. Following his execution, authorities have reportedly refused to return his body to his family for burial. 26/04/2016 A/HRC/32/53 107

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