Date Type Case No Country AZE 4/2014 12/08/2014 Azerbaijan JUA Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted Reply Freedom of expression; Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Human rights defenders; 14/10/2014 Allegations of surveillance, a travel ban, arbitrary arrests, interrogations, charges brought against and detention of three human rights defenders. According to the information received, on 25 July 2014, Ms. Leila Yunus, the Director of the Azerbaijani Institute of Peace and Democracy, gave a press conference critical of the human rights record of the Government of Azerbaijan. On 29 July 2014, Ms. Yunus was subjected to harassment and surveillance by several unidentified men. On 30 July 2014, she and Mr. Arif Yunusov, the Head of Conflict Studies in the Institute of Peace and Democracy, were arrested, interrogated and charged with, among others, treason, fraud and tax evasion. Subsequently, Ms. Yunus was placed in three months’ pre-trial detention. On 5 August 2014, Mr. Yunusov was also arrested and detained. Furthermore, in July 2014, the bank accounts of Mr. Rasul Jafarov, Coordinator of Art of Democracy, were frozen and a travel ban was imposed on him. Between 29 July and 2 August 2014, he was interrogated daily and finally arrested, charged with, among others, operating an illegal enterprise and placed in three months’ pre-trial detention. Earlier, in June 2014, Mr. Jafarov had presented a report on human rights violations in Azerbaijan to the Parliamentary Assembly for the Council of Europe (PACE) in Strasbourg, France. Ms. Yunus was the subject of a previous communication sent on 24 August 2011, see A/HRC/19/44, case no. AZE 2/2011. She and Mr. Yunusov were the subject of another previous communication sent on 9 May 2014, see A/HRC/27/72, case no. AZE 3/2014. A/HRC/28/85 55