Date Type 24/12/2015 JUA 24/12/2015 UA Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted SAU 12/2015 Saudi Arabia Summary executions; Torture; Alleged violations of the rights to life, liberty and security of the person, and fair trial, as well as the right to be free from torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. According to the information received, on 24 February 2007, Mr. Ali Agirdas, a Turkish national, was arrested for drug smuggling in Saudi Arabia. In 2008, he was convicted and sentenced to death by a General Court in Riyadh following a reportedly unfair trial. After the exhaustion of all local remedies, he was executed in Riyadh on 20 November 2014. Despite repeated requests from his family, the Saudi authorities have failed to return the body to his family for burial. Concerns are raised that the body of Mr. Agirdas was not returned to his family after his execution in 2014 and that the death penalty may have been carried out against him following judicial proceedings that do not appear to have fulfilled the most stringent guarantees of fair trial and due process. TUR 5/2015 Turkey Summary executions; Alleged killings in the context of violent clashes between security forces and armed groups in the southeast of Turkey. According to the information received, 550 people, including 150 civilians, have been killed since the breakdown of the peace process between the Government of Turkey and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Since August 2015, authorities in the southeast of Turkey have imposed repeated prolonged curfews, during which security forces have conducted counter-terrorism operations against the Patriotic Revolutionary Youth Movement, an armed movement associated with the PKK. Meanwhile, supporters of the Youth Movement have dug trenches, often planted with explosives, and erected barricades to seal off neighbourhoods. Witness reports indicate that security forces opened fire indiscriminately on people in the streets and denied wounded people access to medical treatment. Reply A/HRC/32/53 39