Date Type 22/12/2015 JAL 22/12/2015 JAL Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted KGZ 4/2015 Kyrgyz Republic Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Human rights defenders; Alleged ban imposed against a human rights defender from entering the Kyrgyz Republic. According to the information received, on 2 December 2015, Ms. Mihra Rittmann, director of the Bishkek office of Human Rights Watch, was refused entry into the Kyrgyz Republic by immigration officials at Manas International Airport, Bishkek. She learnt that she had been declared “persona non grata” and was being accused of violating the Kyrgyz Republic’s migration law. She was placed on a flight out of the Kyrgyz Republic on the same day. Serious concern is expressed that the action taken against Ms. Rittman is directly connected to her human rights work and role as Director of the Bishkek office of Human Rights Watch. Ms. Rittman was the subject of a previous communication sent on 30 July 2015, see A/HRC/31/79, case no. KGZ 2/2015. SRB 3/2015 Serbia Disappearances; Sale of children; Alleged shortcomings of the “draft law on determining the facts on the position of newborn infants suspected to have disappeared in maternity hospitals in the Republic of Serbia” to adequately secure the establishment of a mechanism aimed at providing individual redress to all parents of infants who have disappeared from maternity wards in Serbia. According to the information received, on 26 March 2013 the European Court of Human Rights found Serbia in violation of the European Convention on Human Rights in the lead case of Zorica Jovanovic v. Serbia, and held that Serbia “must […], take all appropriate measures, preferably by means of a lex specialis […] to secure the establishment of a mechanism aimed at providing individual redress to all parents in a situation such as, or sufficiently similar to, the applicant’s”. In July 2015, a draft law was reportedly circulated to a number of concerned civil society organizations by the Ministry of Justice of Serbia, yet a number of concerns have been raised regarding the content of the draft legislation, as well as the process by which it was drafted. Reply A/HRC/32/53 35