Date Type Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted Reply OMN 4/2014 14/11/2014 Oman AL Discrimination against women ; Letter concerning discriminatory provisions against women in nationality legislation. According to the information received, current nationality law in Oman discriminates against women in that, although women can confer nationality to their children born either in Oman or abroad if the fathers are unknown or are former Omani nationals, they do not enjoy equal rights in this respect with men. QAT 3/2014 14/11/2014 Qatar AL Discrimination against women ; Letter concerning discriminatory provisions against women in nationality legislation. According to the information received, current nationality law in Qatar discriminates against women in that they are not permitted to transfer their nationality to their children under any circumstances even if this would result in statelessness. RUS 9/2014 14/11/2014 Russian JUA Federation Freedom of expression; Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Human rights defenders; Truth, justice, reparation & guarantees on non-rec; 17/12/2014 Alleged court application for the closure of an umbrella human rights organization and defamation of an affiliated non-governmental organization (NGO). According to the information received, on 17 January 2013, the Ministry of Justice warned that the Historical, Educational, Human Rights and Charitable Society Memorial (Society Memorial) had violated the Law governing NGOs. On 21 July 2014, the Ministry registered Human Rights Centre Memorial (HRC Memorial), which is a member of Society Memorial, as a “foreign agent”. That decision is under appeal. On 24 September 2014, the Ministry filed a case with the Supreme Court, citing infringements of the law. A hearing was to be held on 13 November 2014 but was deferred to 17 December at the request of the Ministry. On 26 September 2014, members of HRC Memorial were allegedly denied access to the villages of Vremenniy and Gymry, in Dagestan, during investigations carried out by them into alleged human rights violations. On 10 October 2014, state television channel NTV broadcasted footage of the attempted visit and accused members of HRC Memorial of providing support to terrorists allegedly hiding in Vremenny. The above-mentioned laws and HRC Memorial were the subject of three previous communications dated 13 June 2013, see A/HRC/25/74, case no. RUS 3/2013; 18 December 2013, see A/HRC/26/21, case no. RUS 13/2013; and 20 June 2014, case no. RUS 5/2014. 02/02/2015 A/HRC/28/85 123