Date Type Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted KAZ 6/2013 30/10/2013 Kazakhstan JUA Disappearances; Alleged disappearance of a poet while in detention. According to the information Freedom of received, Mr Aron Atabek (also referred to as Mr Aron Edigeev) who had been held in expression; solitary confinement in Arkalyk Prison since December 2012 disappeared in early October 2013. It was reported that he was transferred to Karazhal Prison on 5 October 2013. Although the authorities did not confirm this information, his family received an anonymous phone call informing them of the transfer. At the time of writing, Mr Atabek’s whereabouts remained unknown. Mr Atabek was sentenced to two years in solitary confinement for writing the book “The Heart of Eurasia” highly critical of President Nursultan Nazarbayev and the Government of Khazakhstan. BGD 12/2013 31/10/2013 Bangladesh JAL Indigenous peoples; Violence against women; Reply 06/12/2013 01/11/2013 Allegations of violence and other human rights abuses against tribal/ indigenous peoples. According to the information received, members of indigenous peoples of the 07/02/2014 Chittagong Hill Tracts have experienced murders, harassment, intimidation, religious persecution and sexual violence against indigenous women and children. Allegedly, this violence is linked to land disputes that originate from Government policies that have promoted the migration of Bengali citizens to settle in the Chittagong Hill Tracts over the course of several decades in order to alter the demographic composition of the region. It is reported that the Chittagong Hill Tracts Accord of 1997, providing for the recognition of the Chittagong Hills Tracts as a “tribal inhabited region”, the promotion of indigenous cultures, customary laws and rights to customary lands and natural resources, which brought an end to an armed insurgency that arose in the 1970s had not been implemented. A/HRC/26/21 91

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