20/06/2012 JUA 20/06/2012 JUA 20/06/2012 JUA Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted BRA 6/2012 Brazil Human rights Follow-up communication regarding alleged threats against the family of a defenders; Summary human rights defender. According to the information received, on 12 June executions; 2012, Ms. Daize Menezes de Souza, the wife of Mr. Alexandre Anderson de Souza, noticed that the guards which had been assigned to guard her home while her husband was away were absent. Reportedly, she received several threatening phone calls at this time and a number of unfamiliar cars were stationed outside the house. Mr. Anderson de Souza is head of the Associação dos Homens do Mar – AHOMAR (Association of Seamen). AHOMAR is an organization which aims to defend the rights of fisher folk in Rio de Janeiro. Mr. Anderson de Souza was granted protection measures by the National Protection Programme for human rights defenders in September 2010 in the wake of an attempt to kill him and his wife. They were both the subject of an earlier communication (see A/HRC/18/51, case no BRA 7/2010). EGY 8/2012 Egypt Freedom of expression; Human rights defenders; Summary executions; Alleged death threats against human rights defender in violation of his right to freedom of opinion and expression. According to the information received, on 11 and 12 June 2012, Mr. Abdulkarim Rihawi, President of the Syrian Human Rights League, at the time in exile in Cairo, Egypt, received at least five threatening phone calls from unidentified individuals, warning him that he would not live longer than supporters of President Bashar Al-Assad. This followed his appearance on the television channel Al-Jazeera, on 11 June 2012, to speak about his human rights activities. RUS 4/2012 Russian Federation Arbitrary detention; Freedom of expression; Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Human rights defenders; Allegations of acts of harassment, intimidation, arbitrary detention and searches in the residences of several activists and members of the opposition in the context of protests held in Moscow on 6 May 2012; and adoption of new legislation that can seriously limit the right to peaceful assembly. According to the information received, on 11 June 2012, State investigators searched approximately 10 apartments hosting persons believed to have participated in protests. Reportedly, on 8 June President Vladimir Putin signed into law a bill restricting the right to peaceful assembly. In particular, the law introduced amendments to the Code on Administrative Violations and to the Federal Law on Assemblies, Meetings, Demonstrations, Processions and Picketing which significantly increased the fines for violating national legislation on holding public events and placed additional restrictions for anyone willing to express dissent through peaceful protest. Reply A/HRC/22/67 22 Date Type