Date
Type
02/05/2016
JAL
02/05/2016
JAL
Case No
Country
Mandate(s)
Summary of the allegation transmitted
IDN 4/2016
Indonesia
Arbitrary
detention;
Freedom of
expression;
Freedom of
peaceful assembly
and of association;
Human rights
defenders;
Indigenous
peoples;
Alleged excessive use of force, degrading treatment and arbitrary arrest of 20 West
Papuan activists in Papua Provinces of Indonesia. According to the information
received, on 12 and 13 April 2016, 20 West Papuan activists ? Mr. Yupi Sobolim,
Mr. Unyil Kobak, Mr. Erson Suhun, Mr. Lendeng Omu, Mr. Leni Busup, Mr. Natu
Dapla, Ms. Panggrasia Yeem, Mr. Petrus Katem, Mr. Idelfonsius Katop, Mr.
Yohakim Gebze, Mr. Gento Emerikus Dop, Mr. Charles Sraun, Mr. Emilianus
Nemop, Mr. Rikardo Pisakai, Mr. Oktovianus Warip, Mr. Petrus P. Koweng, Mr.
Lukas Arawok, Mr. Simon Taulemi, Mr. Paustinus K. Metemko, and Mr. Moses
Pasim ? were arrested in two different locations in the Papua Province of
Indonesia. The arrested persons are comprised of members of and activists
supporting the West Papua National Committee, as well as members of People’s
Regional Parliament. The arrests were reportedly in reaction to their support of the
candidacy of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua to be a full member
of the Melanesian Spearhead Group. They were reportedly subjected to a series of
degrading treatment, including forced to eat dirt, strip and beaten with a hammer.
Concern is expressed at the alleged excessive use of force, degrading treatment,
arrest and arbitrary detention against individuals for the legitimate exercise of their
rights to freedom of assembly and freedom of expression.
POL 1/2016
Poland
Discrimination
against women;
Health; Torture;
Violence against
women;
Alleged detrimental human rights impact of a draft law proposed by a civic
committee, aiming at prohibiting and criminalizing abortion under all
circumstances. According to the information received, in April 2016, the “Stop
abortion” civic committee presented a draft law revising the Family Planning,
Human Embryo Protection and Conditions of Permissibility of Abortion Act of 7
January 1993 and the Penal Code of 1997. The proposed revisions include
replacing the term “human foetus” by “the conceived child” or “the unborn child”,
prohibiting abortion under all circumstances and criminalizing all persons
intentionally causing the death or the severe impairment/injury of the foetus,
including the woman herself. Under current legislation abortion is authorised in
cases of threat to the life and health of the woman, when the foetus suffers from a
“severe and irreversible foetal defect or incurable illness [threatening] the foetus’
life” and when the pregnancy results from rape and incest.
Reply
30/06/2016
A/HRC/33/32
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