Date Type 21/12/2012 JUA 21/12/2012 JAL Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted Reply SAU 13/2012 Saudi Arabia Arbitrary detention; Freedom of expression; Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Human rights defenders; Terrorism; Alleged arbitrary detention of human rights defender. According to the information received, on 11 December 2012, Mr Suleiman Ibrahim Saleh Al Rashoudi held a meeting in Riyadh where he reportedly publicly asserted that the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association are legitimate and internationally recognized. On 12 December 2012, he was reportedly arrested while he was on his way to the Qassim region. The Saudi Interior Ministry purportedly used a verdict from 2011 to arrest and detain Mr Al Rashoudi. Mr. Al Rashoudi is also a defendant in a case which reached the appeal stage. In this case, he was convicted of involvement in forming a secret organization, attempting to seize power, incitement against the King, financing terrorism, and money laundering. UKR 3/2012 Ukraine Freedom of expression; Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Human rights defenders; Alleged attack against LGBT rights defenders. According to the information 18/03/2013 received, on 8 December 2012, approximately one hundred lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual (LGBT) human rights defenders took part in a peaceful demonstration in Kiev in order to commemorate International Human Rights Day and to denounce Draft Law 8711, adopted at first reading on 2 October 2012, which criminalizes any reference to homosexuality in the media or public domain. As the demonstration began, police allegedly stated that the assembly was illegal, despite the authorities being reportedly notified of the demonstration‘s location and time, in accordance with Ukrainian law. A number of protestors were subsequently reportedly attacked by members of a radical right-wing group, while one individual also allegedly sprayed an unidentified gas into the crowd. Sources state that police detained the alleged perpetrators as well as six LGBT rights defenders, who were subsequently released. Two of the LGBT defenders were reportedly charged with ―petty hooliganism‖ and were issued a fine, while the organizer of the demonstration was allegedly charged with conducting an illegal assembly, an offence which could reportedly result in a considerable fine. A/HRC/23/51 31