Date Type Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted Reply IND 1/2014 10/01/2014 India JAL Summary executions; Torture; Alleged death in custody. According to the information received, on 3 March 2013, Mr. X was arrested by the police on suspicion of murder and later transferred to the preliminary detention centre in Khetri, India, where he was held from 10 July 2013 onwards. It is alleged that Mr. X was forced to admit to the offence and was subsequently charged with murder. No information is available regarding the details of his trial and conviction. On an unknown date, Mr. X was reportedly found dead in his cell. While the circumstances of his death are unclear, it is alleged that Mr. X died as a result of torture. Mr. X’s family is reportedly reluctant to file a complaint out of fear of reprisals. Concern is expressed about the circumstances of the death of Mr. Meghwal while in custody. 17/01/2014 KEN 1/2014 10/01/2014 Kenya UA Indigenous peoples; Alleged imminent threat of eviction faced by the Sengwer indigenous people. According to the information received, police are poised to forcibly evict Sengwer indigenous people from their homes in the Embobut Forest area. For centuries, the Sengwer indigenous people, also known as the Cherangany indigenous people, have lived, hunted and gathered in the Embobut Forest area in the Rift Valley of Kenya. Sengwer continue to live in or near the Embobut Forest and to engage in cultural and subsistence practices in the area. According to reports, police forces have been gathering in the Embobut Forest area in preparation of evictions ordered by the Government in pursuit of forest and water conservation objectives. Sources report that since the 1970s Kenyan authorities have made repeated attempts to forcibly evict the Sengwer from the forest for resettlement in other areas. A/HRC/26/21 39